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Post by ChasityNicole on Jun 18, 2017 0:25:16 GMT -5
Valhaven Island wasn't always a calm and peaceful place. There was a time when everything here was a disaster. When kids were kidnapped and dragged to Hell by the spawn of Satan. When kids faced death at the hands of a madman trying to keep his daughter alive. But now things were different. Now things were quiet and peaceful, and we could actually succeed in the real mission that brought us here in the first place- figuring out who we are.
"Ember, you out here?" Spike shouted from just outside the school.
"Yeah," Ember shouted back as she kicked the sand beneath her feet.
"Why are you out here?"
"Just preparing I guess..."
"New kids coming here scares you, doesn't it?"
Ember nodded and looked out into the water. "I'm afraid they'll go through the same crap we did. I know Jun has the right goals for us, but we don't know if he'll be back. Nor do we know what these new kids are capable of. What if we invite another kid like him here?"
"We're not. Jun ran through all of them. Plus, we have you. What could go wrong."
"Don't say that, a lot could go wrong because it already has," Ember said flopping down onto the sand.
"Just wait and see how the new kids are, ok?" Spike said as Ember nodded. "I'm going to go back and help them set up the rest of the way, you ok out here?"
"Yeah, I'll make my way in there soon. I just want to watch the waves roll in. It calms me," Ember said as Spike nodded and walked back toward the school.
Ember stayed planted on the sand for a while watching the clear blue waves roll in and out. Watching as each new wave brought in shells and took out another batch to sea.
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Post by themightycro on Jun 18, 2017 19:35:46 GMT -5
Kidnapped and forced to be on an island he didn't want to be on and having to communicate with a punch of people that he didn't really care for. Yeah, that is what happened. The island was very peaceful right now, he didn't know how long that was going to last. He pushed his hands into the pockets of his jeans. Walking around on the beach might be a fun thing to do, he had been avoiding all the people on the island. He doesn't play well with others. At least he still had his cell phone and social media.
He had dug out his smartphone from one of his pockets. Swiped to unlock the phone and he stared at it as he was going through some text messages.
“Dad, I wouldn't put this past you.” Shawn grumbled.
There was barely any service on the island, yeah, that figures. Maybe he should try and go make some friends. Yeah, like that would happen. He was too much of a loner to have friends and he got into too many fights. This would be like any other place he was shipped off to. He'd get into a few fights, hurt a few people and then he would be gone. He'd find himself in another strange place and the same things would happen. He walked on the beach and minding his own business for the most part, he noticed another person on the beach. It looked like a woman, he wondered what her story was.
He wondered what her story was, but he wasn't going to ask her or try to get involved with her life. He sat down on the beach and watched the waves crash. It was a nice day out, he wondered how many nice days they were going to have. Training, this is what this place was about and he loved training and loved to fight. He was shutting the whole world out and just getting lost in his own thoughts.
He still thinks his father somehow set this up, it didn't matter though. His powers always scared him and he didn't like them that much. Sure, he used them to save a few people. He was always labeled a freak. He just wanted to help people and make the world a better place. Sometimes he just didn't know how to show that. It was easier for him to show the world his darker side. So much more easier to be angsty. He chuckled for a moment and then continued to get lost in his thoughts.
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Post by ChasityNicole on Jun 18, 2017 20:38:32 GMT -5
Ember heard the sand moving near by and turned to see a face she hadn't seen before on the island. 'Have the new kids already started arriving?' she thought as she stood and brushed the sand from her jeans. She quickly pulled out her phone and scrolled through her phone at the list of kids that was set to arrive on the island and found that some were due to arrive earlier due to special circumstances. 'Lovely, so Jun failed to mention that one,' she thought as she sighed and sent a text to Spike.
'Hey, so we have a newcomer already here. What do I do?'
'Go talk to them. They must have left the airport and went to the beach.'
'But, I'm not good at this...'
'Ember, you'll be alright. You've got this. I love you.'
'Love you too.'
With a sigh Ember put her phone back in her pocket and walked over to the newcomer and said with a smile, "Welcome to Valhaven Island. I'm Ember."
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Post by themightycro on Jun 19, 2017 16:04:29 GMT -5
He was lost in his own thoughts and didn't really notice anyone else around him. It's not like anyone even knew that he was here, or cared that he was here for that matter. It was just another school for him, he wouldn't know anyone and probably wouldn't make friends that fast anyways. It had always been a battle with him, to get people to like him. He had an “Attitude Problem” so everyone else said. He never had a problem with his own attitude, it was just everybody else that had the problem. He was a loner, that was something that he couldn't really help.
He continued to watch the waves for a moment and then he heard someone come over near him. He looked up and saw a girl, she wasn't there before. Where did she come from? Why was she here? He was very skeptical of all people, and it didn't matter that they were on an island in the middle of the ocean. That is reason to be even more skeptical. He didn't know how he got here, or why he was even here. It was just another journey that he had to be put through. He really did wish he could have a normal life, he knew that wasn't going to happen and apparently the girl had introduced herself to him while he was day dreaming.
“Ember, huh? I'm Shawn. I'm probably going to be trouble here..” Shawn said, he looked up at her and then broke eye contact with her. He was trouble everywhere. It was almost like it was his thing, he didn't know what this place was. He had a feeling that he was going to meet other people like him. Freaks, people with powers. He was used to being the freak though, the outcast, the loner.
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Post by ChasityNicole on Jun 19, 2017 18:39:22 GMT -5
Ember cocked her head to the side and inhaled and read his mind, sensing his uneasiness. "You don't want to be here, do you? Don't worry, none of us did either. It'll get easier, trust me. So what's your ability?" she asked as she conjured a fireball in her hand and watched it dance around before a stream of ice caused it to fizzle out. "AURORA!"
"What?" a voice called from the breeze, but no one was there.
"Look, it's not nice to play ghost and try to scare the newcomers. Jun discussed this with you on numerous occasions. I will shut your powers down and make you visible, don't think I won't do it!"
"Fine, you ruin all my fun!" Aurora said as she appeared in front of Shawn standing next to Ember. Her long white hair blowing in the gentle breeze. "Before you say it, we're twins, so yes, you're seeing double. Well sort of."
Ember rolled her eyes and looked at her sister and said, "You're an idiot."
"But you love me."
"I'm stuck with you like the plague, literally. We're fire and ice, how the heck that worked out I'll never know," Ember said with a sigh.
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Post by themightycro on Jun 20, 2017 15:19:10 GMT -5
They wanted to know about his powers and it was easier to show them than explain it to them. Even if he was to explain it ot them, they probably wouldn't listen. These girls were going to be a problem for him. He probably wasn't going to befriend them anyways, so it wouldn't really be a problem. He has never had to show his powers to someone else before, he had spent the majority of his teen life trying to hide these powers and no people wanted to see them. It was an odd sensation. Other people like him here.
When his powers manifested he was mad, and thats how he got his powers. His anger inside manifested in this sort of energy, that is how he explained it. That is what he had been telling himself for all of these years. He kept his powers hidden, he had lost people he had been close to because of these powers and really just wanted them to go away for the most part and he knew they wouldn't. They were apart of him and that kinda pissed him off and made him sad at the sametime. Once they saw his powers, they would never be the same again. He watched the interaction between the twins.
“So you wanna see what makes me special, huh?” Shawn looked over at Ember and Aurora.
He walked a few feet away from the twins. He didn't want to hurt them, he really didn't. He looked out into the sea, he was looking for some sort of an object, a destroyed ship. A fishing vessel that was just sitting there. Of course, there was nothing. He turned and looked back at the twins. They were interesting to say the least. Anger, Rage, to him that was power and that is what made his power even stronger. His power was connected to his emotions.
Shawn concentrated energy in his right hand, when it began to form it started to crackle like electricity. It wasn't electricity though, it was energy. His own energy, it was similar to how Ember had made the fireball and how Aurora had made the ice ball. This was curse, he hated it. His power hurt his body as well, if he used it too much his body would start to get injured so he didn't like to use it that much. That was it, they asked for the beast and that is what they got.
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Post by ChasityNicole on Jun 20, 2017 17:03:38 GMT -5
Ember cocked her head to the side in curiosity and said, "Interesting, so you're like my sister and me. You can manifest energy, but it hurts you. We feel nothing from ours, well I do if I go nova. You can't control it either and it frightens you, you frighten yourself. Just let go dude."
Aurora looked at her sister and said, "Wait, that's my line..."
Ember nodded at her sister and said, "I remember being like Shawn. Afraid of my power, afraid to be me. Afraid to let anyone get close to me because I could destroy them, it's no way to live. Let go, loosen up."
Aurora nodded and walked up to Shawn and looked at the orb of energy. She reached her delicate fingers out toward it and froze the energy spear and looked back at Shawn with a smile. "We're all here to help. We wear these rings for a reason, they have a shut off switch that the older guys can used to shut down those who are going rouge, so don't worry. If you get out of control, hothead over here can shut you down. And I say hothead because they won't let me use the ring to shut down people's powers, because I've abused it. They revoked my privileges."
Ember looked at her sister and said, "You freaking shut down Kai's abilities as he was flying and made him fall from thirty feet. You nearly killed him. You've left Sage stuck in tree form for an hour."
Aurora just smiled and bounced back and forth on her toes, proud of her deeds.
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Post by themightycro on Jun 23, 2017 15:22:58 GMT -5
He didn't know what to think about that Aurora or even Ember for that matter. This had been the first time that he had meet people like himself. It helped put his mind at ease for a moment, so he was hear to learn how to control his powers. He didn't know how he felt about someone being able to shut off his powers. That seemed a bit constricting, he didn't like to be constricted. He hasn't seen any others on this island besides him and the twins. Maybe they were the only people here, man wouldn't that be nice. It would almost be like a vacation, he chuckled to himself. This was no vacation though.
Fighting was the only thing that he was good at he wondered if the three of them would become friends. He wasn't really looking for friends. He listened to the waves crash behind him. It was so soothing, he wondered when the others would arrive. There had to be others and they had to be coming soon. He kinda wanted someone to spar with and the last person that picked a fight with him ended up dead. He didn't want to kill anyone, even if they did deserve it. He didn't want to use these powers for evil. He had a good heart, but no one really ever saw it.
He turned to look at Aurora, he was going to regret what he was going to ask the girl. He felt like he had to do. Get to know these girls a little better.
“So Aurora, was it? How'd you get your powers?” Shawn asked Aurora.
In the pit of his stomach he felt like he was about to open up a can of worms, his gut was never wrong. He kinda hoped it was in this case. He dug out his phone and swiped the screen to unlock and he gazed at the screen for a second. No texts, no one cared where he was. He pushed the phone back into his pocket and then looked Aurora.
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Post by ChasityNicole on Jun 23, 2017 16:12:21 GMT -5
Ember looked at her sister and then at the water. "We were born with them, most of us here were. Well Sage wasn't, he made a deal and got his powers. I noticed my abilities at the age of five when I sat Kait's hair on fire. She's no longer on the island, she went back to the mainland to live a normal life. She made my life hell though because everyone thought I was an arsonist."
Aurora looked at Shawn and said, "It's funny how I'm ice and she's fire. But I was born with it too. Pretty sure I froze her and that's how we found out about mine."
Ember nodded and said, "The other's, at least the one's already on the island from the last batch, are up at the school preparing for everyone else to get here. But I don't plan on going up there. Also, the whole shutting off powers thing is really only used if you get out of control. So don't worry."
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