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Topic Started: Aug 24 2005, 10:38 AM (636 Views)
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Lina walked down the hall, mentally checking off the door numbers as she passed them, and occaisionally glancing down at the number on the room-key she had been given. Her luggage rolled on steadly behind her, occaisionally wobbling as the wheels hit some microscopic bump in the floor.
"Ah," she said as she found the number she was looking for. "Here we are."
She unlocked the door and went in. The room was almost bare, but was minimally furnished with a pair of bedrooms joined by a bathroom. She dropped her duffle bag heavily on the bed, letting the rolling-luggage rest against one of the walls. It had finally struck her that she was in Japan, in a dorm of her own, in a school full of metahumans.
"THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!"
Part of her mind vaguely registered the fact that she had left the door open, but, as she did so often, she ignored it and flopped down backwards onto the bare matress.
"Ah...."
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"THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!"

(Words to live by, or so she would say. Sitting in a room with a laptop, ironically on her lap, pair of ears belonging to a black-haired girl seemed to snap to attention. They did this because they were not normal ears, but more cat-like in nature. They had heard the cry of supreme joy, referring to this place. She could understand that feeling too. The room was dark except for the screen display. Those who could see in the dark, also worked in the dark. She slid the computer off of her and crept across the room on all fours. In the light, people would be able to see her properly, having those ears and that short black hair, wearing baggy jeans held in place by a belt and a white T-shirt. She had no tail. Her kind never did. She smiled a mischievous smile, creeping quietly out of her room and noticing an open door. Perfect. Grinning, she began to sneak up to the door and enter with barely a sound. If Lina had been looking, she might have seen the cat-ears pointed over the edge of the bed, but that was likely not seen. The young cat-girl, 14 by the looks of her, crawled under the bed, holding in a laugh as she pulled a funny little device that a friend made for her from her pocket. It was a little noise-maker, but with very realistic sounds. She pressed the EXPLODE button...)

BOOOOOOOMMM!!!
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BOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The message took several microseconds to work its way through the fog of euphoria into Lina's brain, where it frantically pounded at a little gland labelled "panic button".
"Yaaaaah!"
Ancient instincts of fight-or-flight kicked in, and Lina's mental switch flipped decidedly onto 'fight'. She performed an odd sort of forward roll-flip off the bed, grabbing at the nearest thing that could be used as a weapon. Incidentally, it was the shoulder-bag she used to carry her sketchbook and drawing supplies.
"We're under attack!"
SHe dashed out into the hallway, brandishing the bag like a highly inefficient nunchuck.
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"Yaaaaah! We're under attack!"

(The girl underneath the bed suddenly had this wide-eyed expression of amusement that just ached to laugh out loud as the owner of the room suddenly panicked, thinking that the school was being assaulted by some unknown force. She held it in Lina rolled out of her bed and grabbed the bag as a weapon, wielding it like one of those Japanese weapons her father told her about that she couldn't remember. The point was...once Lina was running out of the room...)

"PFFFFT!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!"

(She couldn't contain herself! It was just too funny! She laughed out loud, accidentally hitting the sound-box and activating the LAUGH button, which produced a clip of the Joker's laugh, the Mark Hamill version from the animated series. The laughter from the girl changed to giggles and then stopped completely. She wanted to see what would happen when Lina came back from realizing there was no attack. To do that safely, the catgirl climbed out from under the bed and jumped into the closet, waiting in the darkness...)

This could take a while, but it'll be worth it!
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As she rushed into the hall, Lina heard a manaiacal laughter behind her. She spun around, but saw no one. The sound seemed to tickle at some long-buried memory, but she couldn't place it. She had never been a great fan of Batman, even when she had seen brief moments of it.
In my room...?
She felt a small thrill of fear as she edged back into her dorm. She had seen enough horror films in her life to know that this sort of thing rarely ended well. Looking around cautiously, she saw no one inside. Then the horrible little voice at the back of her head pointed out that the monster usually appeared from behind.
She spun around with a small yelp, bag raised -- but there was nothing in the doorway, exactly as it had been a moment before.
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(Aha! She heard her coming back. With ears like these, you don't miss very much. The girl heard as Lina got back into her room, sounding a little creeped out. She must have heard the laugh. That was the only explanation. In the darkness of the closet, she looked around on the sound box. She could see perfectly fine in the dark, so this was not problem. Finally, she found the button she was looking for. She pushed the GROWL button... A low, gulleteral sound of a beast breaking out into a loud roar suddenly emanated from the closet. DId Lina believe in bogeymen and closet monsters? Or perhaps that a puma had escaped from the zoo? The catgirl had her hand over her mouth to keep from making any more laughing sounds.)
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Lina heard the low, beastial growl from behind her. As she whipped around yet again, her mind conjured up an image from her childhood. A scene from Ghostbusters involving a demonic dog about to come through a closet door. Her mind flicked through the possibilities, and landed on the fact that she lacked anything that was usually used to fight anything demonic in the movies. Certainly no silver bullets, no holy water, no bible...
She dug through her bag, and pulled out a pair of pencils. She grasped them so that they formed a makeshift cross.
Better than nothing... I've got to face this head on...
She whipped open the closet, waving the pencils in front of her like a shield.
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY SOUL ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!"
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"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY SOUL ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!"

"Huh?"

(She looked through the keyhole of the closet door at the panicking student. The sight of her trying to use a couple of pencils to make a cross was just too much. That wouldn't even work on real vampires! That was it. She couldn't hold it in any longer. The sound box dropped from her hand as she hugged her sides and let out a laugh so hard that she couldn't stand up! It went something like this...)

"Keh heh heh heh heh...heh heh heh heh...ha ha ha...! Pfffft- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! *Falls over* OOF! WAH HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! Oh god...that's just too much...heh heh heh..."

(She was in real trouble now. There was no escape here. Well, maybe not without using her powers... She waited to see what would happen.)
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"Keh heh heh heh heh...heh heh heh heh...ha ha ha...! Pfffft- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! *THUD* "OOF! WAH HA HA HA HA HAAA!!! Oh god...that's just too much...heh heh heh..."

As Lina opened the closet door, she found herself facing a cat-eared girl, apparently dying of laughter. She blinked, suddenly unsure. The girl certainy didn't look demonic, and the laughter seemd to lack that certain evil edge that seemed associated with beings of demonic origin.
"Um... hi?"
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"Um... hi?"

(She was not really an evil person, though she would admit to a smidgen of demn-blood in her system. That was from her father's side. Her mother, mind you, was the Neko of the family, and a tough one too. Still, because of her father's carefree nature, this girl was naturally a goofball when it came to having a little fun. The only reason she laughed so hard was because Lina's reactions were overly ridiculous! When she stopped laughing and saw that there was a confused girl there now...)

Uh oh... "Uhhh...hi there."

(She said this with an embarassed grin, standing up all of a sudden but probably a bit shorter than Lina. Still grinning, she hid the sound box behind her with one hand and held out the other by way of greeting.)

"Welcome to AHS! I'm the official closet inspector, Som Lugoti!"

(She was doing this in order to trick her way out of this mess. She'd be surprised if it actually worked.)
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Lina blinked again as the girl stood up and introduced herself. She was by now almost completely sure that the girl was not, in fact, demonic -- unless it was a demon trying to lull her into a flase sense of security.
Closet inspector...?
"So is my closet up to code," she said with a small grin, deciding to play along for the moment.
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"So is my closet up to code?"

Som: Uhhh...

(The young catgirl looked back into the closet a moment, as if inspecting the situation of the closet's molecular something-or-other, and then looked back at Lina with a grin on her face as well.)

Som: Yes! She's not buying it...

(The wheels turned in her head frantically to think up something to say to get her out of this. From what she could tell, gullibility was very high in this one. Consider the pencil-cross, for instance... Ah. There it was. The very thing she needed. Letting a small paws go by, Som decided to ask...)

Som: So...did you really think a pencil cross would help you?
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"Uh, probably not," Lina said, grinning ruefully. "Did you really think someone would believe there was a closet inspector?"
She grinned again as she spoke, showing there weren't any hard feelings. At least not at the moment.
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"Did you really think someone would believe there was a closet inspector?"

(That caught Som off guard. As soon as Lina had said it, she sweatdropped and laughed embarassingly at the same time, getting that "BUSTED!" feeling on the back of her neck. This girl wasn't as easily fooled as she thought. Oh well. At least she was grinning. That meant that her life would be spared, at least. It was confession time. She held up the sound box.)

Som: Heh. Sorry about that. I've been itching to try this thing out and I needed a chance like this to do it in. A friend of mine gave it to me.

(She pressed the SHOUT button and it produces a voice shouting "RUMBA RUMBA SNORT RIP!!")

Som: Can you blame me? I was bored!
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"Heh... that's pretty good." Lina was relaxing a little now that it was fully apparent that the girl wasn't going to transform into a hellhound, eat her heart, and absorb her soul. "How many sounds can that thing make?"
A few half-formed ideas flitted through her brain, but nothing yet definite enough to send her off on one of her wild pursuits.
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"How many sounds can that thing make?"

(Som held the sound box in one hand and looked it over a second. She actually forgot how many sounds it made. So, a quick look and recount wouldn't hurt. She'd already used EXPLODE, LAUGH, SHOUT, and GROWL. It appeared that there was at least eight more. Yes, eight more: MINI-GUN, SCREAM, RIM-SHOT, RIVERDANCE, CURLY HOWARD, THUNDER, PYON!, and also...)

"I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!!"

(DEADITE.)

Som: Twelve in all, and they're very good. Jake likes to mess around with stuff like this. He's a funny guy.

(She then explained how the different sounds worked. She'd already demonstared five of them, but then went on to say that MINI-GUN was pretty self-evident, SCREAM was a random guy or gal scream, RIM SHOT was the snare drum piece done right after jokes, RIVERDANCE was a sample of the music same, CURLY HOWARD was random Three Stooges-isms, THUNDER was thunder, and PYON! was that thing you do when you dart away like crazy.)
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Lina actually had to laugh at the last one. If Som had used that one while in the closet, she probably would have freaked out even more than she had.
"That's great," she said. "You could really have some fun with that..."
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"That's great. You could really have some fun with that..."

(The catgirl looks down at the device, fiddling with it a bit. Yeah, it was a alot of fun, but this was the first chance she had to field-test it. In fact...)

Som: It makes a great little toy, but I was worried it wouldn't work. You know how it is, making things from scratch. You never know when it'll malfunction and backfire on you. How a sound effects machine does that, I don't know. But try being the one that has to find out.

(And with that, Som hands the sound box to Lina with a grim on her face.)

Som: Wanna try?
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"Sure," Lina said, taking the device with a grin. "Hmmm..."
*click*
"I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!!!"
She giggled again slightly.
"You really could have a lot of fun with this," she said. "Of course, you already have... too bad it's not Halloween..."
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"Too bad it's not Halloween..."

Som: Psh... Who needs Halloween? This place is already haunted on the top floor...or at least it is in Suzaku. Actually, I don't know... It use to be the dorm's top floor, then everything was divided and...yeah, it's probably all haunted now, ESPECIALLY in Suzaku.

(What was she blathering on about? It's like she had a storm of conflicting thoughts in her head and she had to voice them all for fear of some kind of explosion in her cranium. In which case, the end result was the decisive point of year-round haunting in the school's housings. And that was when Som got the idea...)

Som: If we really put our backs into it, we can prank someone really good!
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"The top floor's haunted? That's different, then," Lina said with a grin usually portrayed as a 'cat-girl' face. Her mind flipped through a couple things that could be of use in a situation like this. "What do you think, now, or later tonight, after it's gotten dark?"
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"What do you think, now, or later tonight, after it's gotten dark?"

(It was at this moment that a positively evil grin spread across her face. She had an idea. No, she had several ideas. She knew the best way to haunt them all, and what she had to go and use. It would take some work to set up, but it would be fun. Som adopted a false German accent in response.)

Som: Ve vait until dark. Have you any idea before ve get started?
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"Hmmm... I can think of a couple things we might be able to use," she said, still wearing her cat-girl grin of evil. "It's still in my stuff, but I'll have it unpacked by tonight."
She thought for a minute, still grinning evilly.
"How are we going to get people to come up? Or are there more dorm-rooms up there?"
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"How are we going to get people to come up? Or are there more dorm-rooms up there?"

Som: How? Ummm....

(The way to get people to come into a place that was haunted was to lure them with something. They needed someone to get a bunch of strong hero-types to come in and investigate the evil hauntiness. And since she was providing the main attraction...)

Som: You're new here, right? Can you act? I think we can get people to come if a new student acts really scared.
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"Yeah," Lina said. "I could act scared."
At this point, her non-existant kitty tail was swishing back and forth.
"Should be fun," she said with an air of barely contained maniacal laughter. "My name's Lina, by the way."
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(The funny thing about Lina's personal catgirl imagination is that Som was a pretty god reflection of it...minus the tail. Her kind didn't have spare appendages. The maniacal laughter was something Som shared in too, but more because her father was a fun-loving nut.)

"My name's Lina, by the way."

Som: And I think I already told you my name. C'mon, you have to see what I've got planned.

(She suddenly bolted out of the room with a laugh and headed into her own room, which was dark. Som went for the laptop computer nearby and had it enter the remote control program for the other machine that was in the room: her powersuit. Okay, technically, this device was a metallic survival suit, but a powerful one at that, since it used the elementrs themselves to make a living. This one was around Som's size, and the accompanying helmet was in the closet. So, what Lina would find as soon as she got in was a headless armor walking around on its own.)
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Lina followed Som out, though she stopped momentarily to close her own door before dashing into the cat-girl's room. SHe rounded the corner, and was suddenly faced with Som's headless armor.
"Gah!"
Her moment of panic lasted only a moment before her brain caught up with the fact that this was likely what Som had wanted to show her.
"Jeez," she said. "How many of these things do you have?"
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"Jeez, how many of these things do you have?"

Som: Huh? Whadya mean? This is the only powersuit I've ever had.

(She gave off a confused stare, and then it sank in a minute later.)

Som: Oh, you mean "weird gagdets" and stuff. Well, I told you a friend made me that Sound Box. He did it 'cause it was fun, I guess. He likes to tinker. The REC Suit...that was something my dad made. It's a survival suit.

(She began to mess with the remote controls in the laptop some more and Lina would see it doing...The Chicken Dance. Then, it began to mambo. And finally, Som made it walk around like a zombie, which was really freaky when the raw and spiritual energies came around for effect.)

Som: We're gonna make the headless knight of Anime High!
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Survival suit...? Questions were driven from Lina's mind as the robotic suit started dancing.
"Ha! That's great!"
"We're gonna make the headless knight of Anime High!"
Lina grinned as visions reminiscent of Washington Irving played through her head.
"Too bad we can't have it carrying a head, or something..."
She glanced over at Som.
"You don't have anything that would work, do you?"
After seeing the suit and and noise-box, it wouldn't suprise her in the least.
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"Too bad we can't have it carrying a head, or something... You don't have anything that would work, do you?"

(The neko, for the life of her, didn't have a clue. The fact of the matter is that she didn't have any spare heads lying around, nor did she know where to find any. Oh sure, Jake may have had that Book of the Dead thingy, but that didn't make him a necromancer. And as for any REAL necromancers she knew, Som would rather not have to do anything with HIM.)

Som: I don't have anything on me, and I don't even wanna think about decapitating a real zombie for it. I was just thinking that we should make this powersuit all spooky-like and have it swing around the sword I got with it.

(She pointed to its technologically-advanced scimitar. Clearly based on the same technology, it could do similar things to the REC Suit. There was also a helmet nearby that looks as if it's been altered to better fit cat-ears.)
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"Oh, it has a sword," Lina said, having missed the blade earlier. "Not as creepy as a sycthe or something, but that's good." She grinned again.
"Does it have built-in speakers, or anything?"
The creepiness of a headless suit of armor could only increase with the addition of a 'disembodied' voice. She thought she might be able to create that effect on her own, but it would be far easier if the suit had something appropriate built in.
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"Does it have built-in speakers, or anything?"

(As soon as she said it, Som gave her a look that seemed skeptical and a bit miffed for some reason. Her ears flattened slightly at the notion, as if you say "You must be joking". She put words to her thoughts a second later.)

Som: It's a survival suit. You don't get much use for stereos in something like that. You don't understand, the whole suit has a super-advanced system for energy-collection-and-redirection You just don't have room for a tape desk or a CD player or anything like that.

(She, her expression brightened again as she held of the Sound Box.)

Som: That's where this thing comes in.
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Lina wilted ever-so slightly under Som's minor reprimand.
"I just figured I'd ask," Lina said, managing to sound somewhere between apologetic and annoyed. She grinned, though, when Som held up the soundbox.
"I figured we might be able to expand on that a bit," she said. "Hide a walkie-talkie somewhere, maybe inside the suit, and you've got a poor-man's voice-throwing ability."
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"Hide a walkie-talkie somewhere, maybe inside the suit, and you've got a poor-man's voice-throwing ability."

(This got Som's attention, but there was a small problem...)

Som: Have you the walkie and the talkie? Or were you just teasing me with the idea? Because that could really come in handy. In fact, it would save on alot of work.

(Of course, while Som was talking, she began to gather things from her closet and decided...that not very much of this stuff could make her powersuit look spookier. There was ONE idea, but that would be breaking and entering...)
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"I think so," Lina said. "If I didn't bring a set, then my memory is playing tricks on me. I just have to remeber which bag I put them in."
She pasued for a moment, glancing at the contents of Som's closet to see if there was anything sufficiently spooky inside.
"It's just too bad I didn't pack that stage blood..." She said it mostly to herself, thinking aloud. "Is there anyplace around here that would sell something like that?"
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"It's just too bad I didn't pack that stage blood... Is there anyplace around here that would sell something like that?"

Som: Ummm... Fake blood... Fake blood... Where do I know that I can get fake blood?

(Fake blood was something that you could actually make at home. Som knew this. What she couldn't remember was where she had heard this and what that recipe was. Then suddenly, it hit her. She knew where to get the blood. Som grinned mischievously and shouted out...)

Som: "If Chins Could Kill"! I know where to get all our stuff! Follow me!

(Som dropped everything she had on her and ran.)

OOC: Continued in Suzaku...
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