Jake slammed his clawed hand in to a spider before both it and the spider shattered and he realized how bloody cold it was getting. It was like being in the middle of a snowman orgy...Which gave Jake reason tl uagh at the mental image as he ran out of the hall way and behind Luke just before the place completely froze over.

Turning his armor back in to his coat Jake grinned and patted Luke on the back. "What now? We cant exacly call it quits yet but it seems we are both about to run on empty." Jake looked around and broke a icicle off one of the frozen spiders , licking it a few times and shrugging to Luke. "Tastes kind of like lime." weith a laugh Jake focused and turned the icicle in to a bottle of water , throwing to towards Luke before maknig himself one and starting to sip at it. "Wooo , nothin' gets the thirst up like fighting giant fat alien spiders."

Jake looked around at the pile of frozen over dead and alive spiders and then sighed. "So! We probably got like two minutes tell more show up. Suggestions?"

June eyed the girl angrily. "Please." She snapped sarcastically and kept walking away from the girl. June believed the girl was weak and she didn't talk to weaklings. She would have to prove herself if she wanted to help June. June then opened the door of the cafeteria went through and closed it. She hoped the girl wouldn't follow her. If she did it would be annoying.

Aaron had no clue what to do. He was worthless in attack or defense. His power was to see the future not fight. When he walked outside he noticed a guy walking around (Tyli's illusion.). Aaron guessed he had bad powers like himself so he decided it would be a good idea to help him feel better. So he walked up to him and said "Hey if you were at the meeting in the auditorium I think we could be partners." but he didn't say anything. Aaron was a bit upset but then he thought that he might have no star. You see people with stars were not really great friends with people that didn't. He hated it it was like racism and discrimination which he hated. "It's okay I'm not plotting to do anything bad to you I just want to-" Aaron couldn't finish his sentence because he saw a vision of the guy being ate by a spider and the clock had been set five seconds after now. "Watch out!"Aaron screamed and pushed the guy back while jumping and just then a Spider flew passed them probably after jumping. "Run!" Aaron yelled while running away but the guy didn't get up in time and the Spider lunged itself at him (Clarady you can say whether or not he died).

Aaron then took out his black gun and started shooting at it's eyes. He got three of it's four eyes on the left side. The Spider shrieked and started chasing after Aaron as Aaron planned on. He didn't like is plan any more. So Aaron kept running away from it not having any idea on what to do. But then it hit him. He dropped under the Spider and it ran away from him, so Aaron ran in the opposite direction. When the Spider noticed what Aaron did it yelled again and turned around too fast causing it to fall. But it got up and started chasing him again. Aaron then turned right.

He then went into the bathroom and into one of the stalls. Eventually the Spider came into the bathroom as well and tracked him easily. It crashed through the door of the stall Aaron was in and stared coming to him and fast. Aaron went on top of the toilet at the back and the Spider followed but it got stuck. It started pulling itself in putting two of it's legs in the water but then Aaron flushed it went over the wall of the stall and fell to the ground. He scrambled up and ran away. In the end he got the Spider's body stuck in the doorway and it's legs stuck in the toilet but now he was completely horrified and would probably end up with post-dramatic stress disorder.

But what worried him more was whether or not that guy was okay but before finding out he had to tell someone to kill the Spider in the bathroom.

So he went to Briar. Mostly because he knows that his brother Cyrus probably didn't want his little brother fighting Spiders head on so a completely trapped unable to attack for now would be better. "Briar! Briar! I need you to kill a Spider that tried killing me! It's in the bathroom! And it's way too strong for anyone else to kill! Only someone with your power will be able to do it!" Aaron wasn't telling the truth when he said Briar was the only one who could do it but he made it really convincing. Aaron had been really good at lying ever since he had to help himself when he was alone on the streets.

Sarah was out with the others as soon as the boy had a vision. Seeing the destruction of the spiders she walked outside the tower. Sarah could here noises behind her. scratch, scratch, scratch. She turned to see a spider. It was huge.
"Oh god..." It started after her. She panicked and threw up her hands. The spider froze where it was.
"Will my exploding power be enough to kill it. Oh well, here goes nothing..." She raised her hands to beside her head and made fists. Flicking her hands forwards, and flexing out her fingers, she felt the power slip from her. She always felt it, she couldn't really explain it. The spider unfroze for a second and curled a little as if in pain. Then it's head exploded. The contents splattering every where, including Sarah.
"Urgh...Gross..." She threw out her hands and froze every spider that she could within her range. Hopefully that will be enough for now. I better get the ones inside... Sarah started on her way to the tower. She knew that she had to try and help these people.

She got into the auditorium to see one of the over-grown spiders untangling itself from some chairs.
"Uh, uh. You die today." She attempted to hit it but her blast hit the chairs. They exploded, sending shrapnel around the room, somehow missing her. Chair shrapnel misses, but spider brains hit...how the hell does that work...?! She started walking closer to it blasting and blasting, aware that she was getting weaker but refusing to show it. She finally hit, blasting it's leg. The next three hits made the spider skid back along the ground. Sarah closed her eyes and called upon the remainder of her energy then sent it out a powerful blast. The body exploded outward onto the floor. The spider fell to the ground, as did Sarah. She was exhausted. She didn't care what her grade was, just as long as she could help these people, she was happy.

He took the water bottle gratefully from Jake chugging it down. "Fighting? when were you fighting it looked like you were just shattering the corpses of the spiders I done killed." He stated playfully smiling at the other male. Once he finished off the bottle of water he sighed looking towards the area he had frozen over as Jake made an estimate of time. "I'm not sure, to be honest; I was thinking after freezing this part of the hallway we could just go back to the cafeteria, I mean we killed quite abit and cut off a way for them to get in right? So our supposed grade has to be a decent one."

He stated all this while keeping his eyes on the entrance, it wasn't like they would have an easy time getting over all the ice and frozen corpses of their broteren, but he wasn't about to take the chance and relax while they were still under siege from eight legged alien spiders. He stood up from his resting spot moving towards the frozen hallway. "Well right now we'll just cover this point. Your power is more offensive mine can be used as both; so if you wanna charge out ahead be my guest, but this choke point needs to be held." He said with a nod to confirm his own thoughts.

There were more crawlers than Jimmy thought there were going to be. They were faster, stringer and smarter than he originally thought as well. It seemed that they were still winning, but they're a lot of injured kids, luckily their buddy got them off the field. Maybe that idea wasn't as stupid as he thought. Jimmy was still standing on his platform when he heard a very loud hiss. Jimmy looked to his left just in time to see a spider leaping at him and it was about 6 feet away. Jimmy immediately shut off his platform and he dropped out of the grasp of the spiders mandibles and teeth. Though, it wasn't fast enough to dodge one of the spiders rear legs, which hit him full force and flung him into the side of an adjacent building. Before Jimmy hit the wall, he deployed a shield on his back, which instantly shattered on impact. Jimmy cried out in pain and dropped 15 feet to the ground.

Jimmy got up on his hands and knees, breathing heavily. He couldn't breathe properly so he took of his mask. He looked over and saw that the spider who had jumped at him got back up and spotted him. Jimmy got up and formed a giant shuriken on a chain and the blades of the shuriken began to spin like a buzz saw. He threw it at the spider....but it dodged. It did mange to cut off the back legs of a spider behind it though. Jimmy pulled on the chain and brought it back. He then started to leap off of platforms and when he was in the air, he threw it at the spider again. It dodged again and on impact with the ground, the shuriken shattered. He didn't know why this spider was better than the others. Jimmy then realized that all of the other spiders he fought were occupied doing something else or they were so tightly grouped they couldn't dodge. That combined with Jimmy's exhaustion from using his powers, killing spiders and being flung into a building, meant that this was going to be a tough fight.

Jimmy's platform began to flicker and then disappeared, without Jimmy's command. He landed onto his feet, just in time to see the spider charge him. Before he could react, the crawler slapped him aside with it's leg into a parked car. "GAK!" was all Jimmy could say when he bent the car door in and the glass of the window rained down on him. He couldn't see straight, he could just see a brown blob moving closer to him. Jimmy must of had a concussion because he was smiling. He then noticed something had fallen out of his pocket, he picked it up and brought it close to his face. It was the picture of his mom and him. Jimmy's smile vanished, replaced with bared teeth. Dizziness was replaced with rage, and through sheer willpower, jimmy got up on one knee and faced the crawler head on. It was moving very fast toward him and Jimmy just kept yelling barbaric sounds. When it got close enough, Jimmy punched at the spider, and a giant glowing gauntlet formed around his fist and crushed the spiders head. Jimmy stood up and reformed the fist into a giant kanabo. He then ran through the battle field, screaming at the top of his lungs, swinging at every spider he came near. He killed few and injured many. He kept running until his weapon shattered, he then stopped and dropped to his knees.

His vision was fuzzy, but he could make out corpses of spiders and the tired forms of his allies. It seemed they were going to win, he was about to close his eyes so he could rest, until he heard a scream. Jimmy's head lolled over to the source of the noise, it was a young girl and her partner. It looked like the partner was unconscious and she was out of juice and a spider prowled not 5 feet in front of her, relishing the kill it was about to make. Jimmy forced himself up. He was no longer angry, nor afraid, nor did he care about his pain. He was too tired to care about any of that. He was too tired to care about dying. So he walked over to where they were, picking up a rock on the way and tossing it at the creature. All it did was look at him, and then revert it's attention back to the girl. He picked up a stop sign that had been uprooted and started to jog. It's mandibles and mouth were hovering over her, poised to strike, until they were filled with a metal bar. While he pushed back the creature, he said to the girl. "Grab her and go, if you wouldn't mind." The girl thanked him and picked up her injured partner and ran to the entrance. Jimmy managed to get the spider back a bit. He then stepped back, hit it in the face with the sign then drove the pole into it's mouth.

He pushed it in as far as it would go. As an involuntary reflex, one of the spiders mandibles came down and stabbed into Jimmy's shoulder. "Gah! AAAHHH!" Jimmy yelled, but drive the pole deeper and then twisted. The spider slumped to the ground, legs curling up. Jimmy pulled the mandible out of his arm and began walking. He had no idea where he was going, but he just kept going. He suddenly felt cold, he looked up and saw several frozen spider corpses blocking the main entrance. Jimmy smiled a tired smile, all while holding his right shoulder. He heard talking on the other side of it, good, this area was safe. He began to cough violently and looked at his hand. It was covered in blood. He felt a fire in his shoulder and fell to the ground. He lay against the frozen corpses, their frozen sting a nice relief from the heat of battle. He knew it was going to be okay now. "You earned yourself a nap, Jimmy boy." With that, light began to fade from Jimmy's sight, and soon, relief.

"Okay!" said Briar to Jimmy, before he jumped out the window. "You can depend on me!"

Briar could barely contain himself. He had an assignment. Everyone was depending on him. He knew that it wasn't right to feel a little bit happy in a desperate situation like this, but still, he felt a little bit happy. The Spiders were scary - there was no question about that. But Briar had never been in a situation where his powers had been beneficial rather than harmful. When he was younger, Briar hadn't been very good at controlling his powers, and he tended to start fires by accident whenever he became emotional. He had hurt a lot of people that way. He was lucky that no one had been killed. But Cyrus still had those scars...

Why am I thinking about that now? Briar slapped his face with both hands. Time to kick some ugly Spider butt!

Briar began to rain fire down on the Spiders. He tried to take out the Spiders that neared Jimmy, but for the most part, Jimmy was faster at taking them out himself. Also, Briar felt nervous about accidentally hitting a human with the blast. So after a while he began to focus on Spiders that were away from psychics. It was much more difficult than he had thought, because they moved so fast. Briar needed at least a second or two to concentrate and 'aim', and usually the Spiders wouldn't even give him that. He ended up missing a lot, charring the ground around the Spiders rather than hitting the Spiders themselves.

Damn it damn it damn it damn it! I'm not being useful at all! I'm just making it more dangerous for everyone else!

Briar became so angry for a moment that he actually almost lost control of his powers. He forced himself to breathe more slowly. In. Out. Then he began to try again, more methodically this time. Since it was difficult for him to hit a single Spider dead-on, he instead aimed for groups of Spiders clumped close together. He wasn't able to kill the Spiders like he might with a single dead-on hit, but he was able to injure them. Briar also practiced predicting the movements, and aiming for that instead - and more than a few times, it worked.

"Hell yeah!" yelled Briar, after successfully blowing a Spider's head into a crater of smoke. "Take that, asshole!"

Suddenly a kid around his age appeared next to him, blowing up Spiders with some kind of weird gravity attack. "Hey! Get your own window!" growled Briar. And why did the kid get to name his attack? Briar could name his attack too! "Fireball, fireball!" chanted Briar, successfully missing quite a few Spiders in a row.

But Briar soon became distracted from his competitiveness. Down in the fray, Jimmy wasn't doing so well. He had taken a bunch of injuries. "Ninja kid!" yelled Briar, ready to propel himself out the window. He stopped as someone grabbed him from behind. Briar assumed at first that it was that his brother, but instead he heard the patronizing voice of that Wednesday jerk.




"What the hell are you doing, kid? There's nothing about your abilities that saves you from a fall to the death. I don't really want to have to look at your smashed corpse. Let me handle this."

Wednesday gave the brat her most winning smile. The sort of smile that deserved an accompanying thumb's up, but Wednesday did not do that because she was a classy broad.

Damn the Peace and damn their grades. If not for the grading system, Wednesday would have done the only sensible thing: run, hide, and set up a force field around her. She would have emerged later from the fray, claiming to have killed a few spiders. The field was so large, and the players so many, that who would say different? Wednesday didn't know how the Peace worked, but she assumed that they were watching somehow, and that her absence would be noted. So she took the next route and opted to wait for everyone else to deplete themselves, and for the Spiders to thin, so that she could jump in like some kind of savior and get a whole heap of glory. Well, the Spiders hadn't thinned as much as she had hoped, but people were definitely depleted, and she wasn't sure how much longer she could stay on the fringes before the Peace docked her grade.

Wednesday looked at both Briar and Seph with an intense glare. "If either of you diapered brats accidentally hits me with one of your ranged attacks, I will murder you in your beds."

With that, Wednesday jumped out the window. She jumped down a flight of her forcefields to the ground, just in time for a Spider to lurch at her.

And Wednesday cut the Spider in half with a force field.




"Whoah, cool!" said Briar with a fist pump. Then he realized he'd just complimented a mortal enemy, so he scowled instead. "I mean, show off."

To Briar's immense relief, Jimmy had headed back inside. He looked hurt, but at least he was retreating, and maybe someone would be able to treat his wounds. At this point, the best Briar could do was to try and keep as many Spiders out as possible.

But he hadn't even crafted another explosion before suddenly some kid came in, yelling about a Spider in the bathroom.

"What, really?!" Briar immediately stepped away from the window. That Wednesday chick seemed to have it under control, and that Metsu guy wasn't doing bad, either. "Okay, I'll defeat it!"

Briar left his post, ran into the bathroom, and exploded the Spider in such a way that he completely destroyed the bathroom and sent himself flying back across the hall.

Oh yeah, thought Briar as he rolled on the ground, putting himself out. That's why Cyrus is always telling me not to use my powers in cramped spaces...

Well, the Spider was dead anyway.




Wednesday used her abilities in a myriad of ways: she created force fields in Spiders, protected people who were able to hit, protected herself. As far as she was concerned, she was doing pretty good. While other kids were getting torn the hell up, Wednesday barely had a scratch. She felt even more elated when the numbers began to thin and thin until there were barely any new Spiders coming in at all.

Yes, thought Wednesday to herself with a gleeful grin, When they wonder who turned the tide, I'm sure all fingers will point to me!

It was then that the shadow fell over Wednesday.

Wednesday looked up to see a gigantic Spider about five stories tall.




Cyrus was a lover, not a fighter. Currently, his objective was to stay alive in case anyone needed to use the mindlink. So he stayed in the auditorium, which turned out to be a bad idea when some guy came running in with a Spider at his back. At that moment, Cyrus thought only one thing, and that thing was Holy fucking shit on a stick.

He followed the guy out into a hallway, gasping for breath. "Do something!" screeched Cyrus, grabbing the guy. Cyrus was not much good under pressure, so the thought that the guy was more defensive rather than offensive did not occur to him. When the guy did nothing, Cyrus began to run along the hall, his hand still attached to the guy's arm, so most likely he was dragging him along as well. The Spider followed, tearing up the floor as it approached.

It was just about then that Wednesday opened a mindlink and communicated a message. That message was:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Cyrus nearly tripped.

Are you trying to kill me?! Cyrus roared back, returning to his previous activity of running like hell.

But Wednesday didn't come back with some snide comment. Cyrus thought for a minute that she might be dead, and that he had just heard her death thrall. It occurred to him, as much as anything could occur to him at a moment in which he was actively running away from impending doom, that he might hear a lot of death thralls in the coming days. But Wednesday wasn't dead yet, and she came back a few seconds later with a more coherent thought: There's a huge Spider out here, I need help - it's several stories tall -

I'm going to broadcast you to everyone returned Cyrus. His head was pounding, but he opened all the mindlinks (although he did not open Briar's, because the last thing he needed was Briar running out to try and tackle a gigantic Spider) and sent out the rest of her message:

A huge spider - several stories tall - they're retreating, but - I've created a force field around it, so it's frozen, but I can't make another force field, I'm too tired, I can't kill it - someone needs to come and help me, I can open up a tiny hole in the force field and they can go inside and kill it - please hurry, I can't keep up a force field this large for much longer, I'm coughing up blood already, I'll die -

Jake sighed and walked towards the front hall "Yeah I guess we should...stay.." Jake blinked and picked up the injured kid that was resting against one of the spiders before turning back to Luke. "You know any medics!?" Just as fast as Jake turned back around his jaw almost hit the floor when he saw the giant spider , quickly wrapping the injured in a blanket he slid him down the hall back to Luke. "Heal him! I found something better to do!"

As Jake rushed outside he heard wendsdays suggestion and ran beside her , patting her on the back with a grin. "One dead spider , comin' up!" With that Jake slammed his fists together , making a new suit of armor for himself and a new leather jacket to go over it and then whent to one knee , pushing his hands against the ground and launching himself up on a massive rock platform , going up. Three storys. Five storys. Six storys , he could see the eyes of the beast. Eight storys. Nine storys , almost there now. Ten storys , finnaly.

Using the momentum he had gotten he launched himself and a good portion of his stone pillar above the spiders , using Cyrus's mind link to speak to wednesday. "Make a hole in that shield of yours! QUICK!" With a mad mans laugh Jake found himself falling towards the head on the massive spider with his pillar above him , gripping the chunk of rock he used the last of his strength to form it in to the shape of a giant thin nail , planning to pin the spiders head right in to the ground and drive the spike right through it's flesh obsessed brain.

As he fell and carefully moved the pin in to place Jake found himself wishing he had jsut stayed in bed today...He would have to punch that Briar kid if he survived this. Yeah , that was a good plan. And then? Impact. The nail started driving itself downwards , through bone and grey matter , muscle and flesh , causing pools of the nasty spider blood to fall out of the monster. Jake continued his continuely maddening laugh , urging the spike on as he felt trembles of pain shoot through it , holding the sides of the spike as he drove it in further thanks to gravity. "DIE YOU UGLY THING! DIE DIE DIE!"

As the spike finnaly fit the ground below the spider (dragging the thigns head with it and basicly nailing it to the ground) Jake stood up on the spike , looking out at the crowds and breathing heavily. His vision starting to go and his legs trembling. "Okay...okay yeah...Not...not bad Jake." When he started to feel the monster move under him Jake slammed his fist against the spike , sending a almost cactus effect down it and causing it to impale the mosnter sevral times over.

With a blink Jake looked out at the crowd , grinning at them as his armor fell off him and his spike started to crack. "Not...too bad-" With that Jakes eyes blurred more and he suddenly felt himself falling , having used up every last shred of energy in him on that he couldint even scream or move his arms and legs as he plummeted through the air. "Shit...least i'm blacking out." and just like that Jake found himself unconcuise in the air , he was done for the day and he hadint even realized it thanks to his body giving out on him.

(catch the matter shifter , win a prize!)

James was in his bathroom, sitting on the tiles and looking at the door when it hit him. The hunger hit harder than a freight train. It hit like nothing had ever hit him before. Even in the throes of ecstasy improved sex had James ever felt this much need. This was no ordinary hunger, this was a fucking need. It was carved into the very fabric of nature. It ripped at James like a knife, it tore and tore until he could feel the tears streaming down his face, the sick emptiness in his stomach. James took a deep breath through his nose, drawing in more of the spider's hunger-scent, not knowing exactly what was causing it, and then he felt tranquility. He felt a calm approach him. It didn't remove the entirety of the spider's hunger, but it subdued it. This feeling was old though, more like a memory than a current placation. It wasn't learned either, this was instinctual, hard-wired into the spider's mind and to be hard-wired into it's children's and into their children's, and onward until the end of time.

James could feel his fingers twitching, involuntarily, and when he opened his eyes he had a plan. He had all the plans. He grabbed the sink's marble and picked himself up from the floor. He knew exactly what he was doing. He slid his shirt off, already smeared in the clear blood of the spiders and with a grunt he tore it in half and then he took those two strips and did it again. This idea was stupid, it was very stupid, it was going to work though. He felt Cyrus's mindlink hit him, all flavored in the residue of other people and Wednesday's pleading, such a nice change from her earlier attitude, summed the proceedings up for him. All they needed to do was keep the damn thing occupied. He walked over to his bed, a flimsy old thing, and ripped the covers into four pieces as well, then he kicked the bed until it broke. He smelled a soft, throbbing pain coming from the courtyard and thanked whoever had done that.

He tied two rags to each arm, and left a piece hanging down from it, then he tied that to a piece of wood and repeated it. He did that four times. By the end, he had two pieces of wood under each arm, when he spread his arms each piece of wood was parallel to the one right above it, and it looked almost spider like. After a few tests to make sure the knots were tight James kicked his door open and fell into a spider corpse. Not immediately though, first he had to find one that Wednesday had chopped open and carefully fall into it in a way that made sure that he could get out again. Once he was covered head to toe in spider blood he started walking down the stairs. It was a, while not slow, laborious walk and he nearly tripped and fell multiple times down, only to pull back with a startled "Oh shit!"

Eventually he made it down, and in all of his stupid glory walked up to the spider. It was hurt, and scared, and James could taste the keening sounds it was making. He bunched up some of the cloth in his hands and he started to dance.

It wasn't an actual dance as much as it was him waving his new arms around in ways that were vaguely rhythmic, he tried to talk while he did this, but it proved a bit difficult doing three things at once. Talking, dancing, and tasting the spider's memories to make sure that he did the dance right. James fired a message off to Cyrus and then went straight back to dancing.

Alright Briar, you have to burn this bitch right fucking now. This shit's going to keep it fucking tranquilized until someone hits the fuck out of it, and this dance is making my arms cramp up like a goddamn bitch. So whatever you, or any of these fuckers do, you better do it hard. And twirl twice, shake third leg on the right once, jump back, then....

This was humiliating.

((I am posting twice in my own turn, meh. And it is short. Meh.))




You've got to be insane if you think I would let Briar get anywhere near that thing. But I'll send your message out to everyone else.

Cyrus did exactly what he said, taking out the 'Briar' part of the message. In essence: the Spider wanted to mate with James, so come chop at it now before something really regrettable happens!

Cyrus also realized two things: 1) The Spider had stopped chasing him, and 2) The Spider had stopped chasing him because he had started to eat the other guy.

Cyrus tried really hard not to throw up.

He did not succeed.

((Bedtime.))

Watching Jake run off growling alittle. "Hey man!" he shook his head and grabbed the ninja guy up and carried him off towards an area where he knew he'd be save. "Man go and get yourself hurt on the first day..." He grumbled slightly and at first he felt relieved when he found another person, this one seeming to be a healer. "Hey look; this guy got bit it seems he needs healed so yeah take care of him." He stated and ran back towards the frozen hallway and right outside.

His eyes widened at the size of the giant spider, though what surprised him more was Jake flying towards the spider and then pinning it's head to the ground. He shook his head slightly. "Man your just gonna get yourself killed." He then sighed as he realized the man was falling. "You idiot!" He growled , using the water in the air to form a semi slide to help decrease the speed of his fall, again worn out panting as he looked to the spider. His first instinct was to get away, though soon James came in and was, dancing? He couldn't believe this and burst into laughter. He calmed himself enough to breath. He walked over to the worn out body of Jake and picked him up partially dragging him back inside. "You better be grateful I should leave your ass out here.." He grumbled down at the man. He carried him past the frozen corpses of the spiders and off towards the healer. putting him down near the ninja guy. "There we go, here's another" He said with a chuckle and was off out the entrance again back towards the giant spider.

He still couldn't believe this thing was here to attack them, he swallowed hard and groaned alittle and began to make his way towards one of the front legs concentrating and intending to freeze off it's front legs, he had to try and help out as best he could, and right now as tired as he was, he had enough strength and energy left in him to freeze off some legs.

"Hey! Get your own window!" The kid with the white hair yelled at Seph.

Seph didn't take his eyes off the spiders below when he responded by saying, "Shut up, midget." The spider creatures weren't letting up even while the fire rained down on them and his gravity attacks squashed them, they continued marching fearlessly, crawling over the corpses of their fallen comrades. It disturbed Seph slightly, but he didn't let that stop him from attacking. "Metsu! Metsu!"

"Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!" the boy next to him screamed as he continued to release his attacks.

"Hey! Stop that! You're only doing that because I'm doing it and that's annoying!" Seph exclaimed with a low growl. He turned back to the spiders below him and began releasing his attacks more rapidly than before. He heard a female voice, but didn't pay her any attention until she jumped past him, practically flying out of the window.

Seph's heart nearly leaped from his chest out of surprise. Some of her hair slapped him in the face on her way down. He watched as she landed and made her way through the army of insects, cutting through them one after the other. He didn't know where she was heading, but he covered her. Crushing every spider, that tried to sneak attack her. Until she turned down a corner of the building, out of his view.

A huge spider - several stories tall - they're retreating, but - I've created a force field around it, so it's frozen, but I can't make another force field, I'm too tired, I can't kill it - someone needs to come and help me, I can open up a tiny hole in the force field and they can go inside and kill it - please hurry, I can't keep up a force field this large for much longer, I'm coughing up blood already, I'll die -

The voice flooded his mind as if she was yelling into directly into his Seph's. He recognized the girl's voice immediately and suddenly he seemed to know her name, Wednesday...she was in trouble. Without a second thought, Seph jumped out of the window from where he was releasing a barrage of gravity attacks under him crushing any spiders that were waiting for him below. He landed on his butt and moaned out in pain. As he stood he felt himself stumbling. He was feeling light headed, probably from using his attacks so often. He wasn't used to this. He'd never been in a situation where he had to use his power so frequently before. He pulled himself together, running in the direction where Wednesday disappeared.

"Woah!" Seph was in complete awe of the size of the monster arachnid. He eyes scaled the beast until he was staring seemingly into the sky. It looked like someone already gave the monster a good go, but it was still standing. He saw Wednesday and another guy, who was doing some stupid dance, in front of the creature. A stupid dance that seemed to keep it transfixed on him. It was actually kind of funny, but there was no time to laugh about it now. The Ice guy from the hall was there too, trying to freeze the creature.

Seph was planning on releasing an attack wider and stronger than his previous one. He focused, feeling the invisible force building above the enormous bug. But something was wrong, Seph's vision was getting blurry and his was feeling a little dizzy. He ignored his pain and slammed the intense gravity down on its body. The spider almost slammed to the ground before catching itself, It wasn't flattened, it was....fighting back... The monster pushed up against the invisible pressure, while Seph struggled to bring it down. The two were at a stalemate until a horrible migraine ripped through the teenagers mind causing him to lose control and release the monster. "Damn it!" he cried falling to one knee and holding his throbbing head with his palms.

Sarah had managed to pull herself up off of the ground. She headed outside again and saw 'it'. 'It' was huge. Then she heard Wednesday's mind call. Sarah started on her way towards the beast. There was a break in the force field surrounding it.
"This is never going to work..." She stated before attempting to freeze the damn thing. It didn't work. She couldn't feel any power slipping from her. She raised her hands again, but this time intended to slow it down, rather than freeze it. It uses much less energy so it might work. I hope. She threw out her hands. The beast started to slow down it's movements.
"It Worked!" However, now she was completely drained. She fell to the ground for the second time today.
That should last about, ooh, five minutes if I'm lucky. She could feel sleep pull at her but pushed it away.
"I must...stay...awake..."

Tyli looked up surprised as she felt her illusion dissolving, well it wasn't really that bad, it was only an illusion, a simple one. Hard ones occasionally did hurt because she had to put a bit of her mind in them to keep them stable.

She heard the voice as well, but since she wasn't a fighter she decided to go and was already collecting the persons that where attacked in the building itself, retrieve the wounded to take care of them in the auditorium. She walked through the walls and took the people that were still alive to the auditorium. She then sat down by the window to watch them fight down there. She felt bad about not helping them fight but she would only get them in more trouble.. Instead she went to the wound to help the ones that would survive and ease the pain of the people that would surely die. She just sat there as a 15 year old leaned against her, she had lost a lot of blood and would surely die. She patted the girls head and just talked to her to get her mind of the pain. The girl fell over slowly.

Tyli got up and walked back yet again to the window, wondering why the peace would do something like this. She could imagine that a lot of people had died tonight and nobody probably actually knew them, their hobby’s and their wishes..

Aaron heard Wednsedat calling out and he was close by really close so he cchecked it out it was starting to die and it was stoppped but still alive but then he noticed June coming.
June heard Wednseday's plead. So she's not that tough after all June said in her head. She then staggered her way through the hall ending up crawling to get to the Spider. When she got there she noticed a boy falling. ''I'll catch him if I have time" June remarked in front of everyone who was there "But first let me show you how to kil a spider, and when I'm done you owe me fifty-" she coughed up blood "dollars" June said ignoring thlle blood she was coughing up mostly because that was her back lash done, sinxce she was resting a while ltting her organs reshape. She stood up and teleported. Where did she teleport? Inside the spiders head. 'If you're too hard to kill from the outside, then I'll kill you from the inside' June thought to herself. She then adjusted herself in her cramped up limited space so that hersword was faceing it's brain and she stabbed it, several times in several places then she teleported to the heart and started slicing tha slightly only because of her limited space. June then teleported out and saw that it was already brain dead so she didn't even need to cut the heart. She was completely covered in blood as well, something she forgot would happen "you guys owe me fifty bucks she said and teleported to save the falling guy when she did she teleported back to the ground and dropped him. Then she teleported towards the spiders running awsy in order to kill those as well. At first they didn't attack her recognozing the scent of the big spiders blood but after she killed three they ran away unsure of what was going on. "I'm going to take a shower...it's too easy this way" June said smirking and she teleported to her dorm and took a shower.

Six hours later...





The battle that had started at roughly 5 AM had taken nearly three hours, not even including the stray Spiders that people found lurking in empty classrooms and bathroom stalls for hours afterwards. It was like the worst kind of infestation. Cyrus had been saved only because that one Spider had stopped to eat the other guy, and after that a psychic with telekinesis had saved his sorry ass.

The enemies had dispersed, but that didn’t mean the battle was entirely over. There were a handful of psychics with healing capabilities, and they were constantly dragged from one place to the next, taking care of that broken bone, those lacerations. It was incredibly useful, but even the healers couldn’t take care of the most common injury: exhaustion from over-use of psychic abilities. Healers could only heal physical injuries.

Fortunately, the Spiders had never made it up the 23rd floor. Unfortunately, Spiders caused property damage everywhere they went, and those 23 floors looked appropriately like a war zone. 23 virtually unusable floors, full of sparking electrical wires and broken glass and doors threatening to fall down on people.

Cyrus spent the first few hours after the battle doing everything he could, which was mostly sending out requests for healers and people that were trapped underneath rubble. Finally, at around 2 in the afternoon, things started to calm down. All the sick/injured people had been put in several classrooms on the 25th floor (it was too exhausting to drag them up much higher than that.)

Since there wasn’t much else for him to do, Cyrus returned to his room. He washed his face. He sat on his bed. He thought faintly of sleep, but just then a knock came on his door. Cyrus recognized the knock from its urgency.

“Come in, Briar.”

Briar looked sheepish, which was a strange look on Briar. “I wasn’t sure if you were sleeping,” he said. “Are you sure you’re okay, bro? You used your powers so much today.”

“I’m fine, but I was about to sleep. What did you want to talk about?”

“Well…” Briar looked down at the ground. “Some of the three stars were saying that they wanted to send out a broadcast to the other three stars, but the comm system is broken 'cause of the attack…we were going to meet in classroom 55E14.”

So, a classroom on the 55th floor, in the East wing, classroom 14. If they’re having their meeting place so high up, then they really must think they’re already above everybody…

“That shit? No, Briar. I’m too tired. People aren’t going to really organize using that star system, are they?” He looked seriously at Briar. “If today taught you anything, it should have taught you how arbitrary that system is.”

“I know it’s arbitrary,” said Briar with a quiet voice. “If it made any sense, bro, then you would be a three star, and I would be a one star.”

Cyrus wasn’t sure what to say to that.

“I thought you might say no. I told them that. I mean, you already used your powers so much today. And we did a good job of spreading the news already. I kind of wanted to ask you…if you were in that meeting, what would you say?”

“I would say that we shouldn’t be holding a three star meeting.”

“No, I mean,” Briar frowned. “If you had to suggest stuff, what would you suggest?”

Cyrus leaned back against the wall. “We need a list,” he said at last. “Not a list of people’s stars. We need a list of names and abilities. But not just psychic abilities. Yeah, we’re going to need to know people’s abilities in order to organize them into a fighting force during an attack. But what are we going to do in-between? We have a cafeteria full of stored food – who’s going to serve it? What do we do when we run out of food? I’m sure we can go out and get more in the city, but who’s going to do that? How are we going to share it? And there are other things, too. It’s great that we have healers, but what if someone here has experience in medical school? That would be even better – healers wouldn’t have to waste strength on minor injuries. We need to use everyone’s talents, psychic and otherwise.

But those are just long-term concerns. In the short-term…what are we going to do with the Spider bodies? We probably need to drag them outside and burn them. That would be you, Briar.”

“There are also human bodies,” said Briar.

Oh, shit. How could I not think of that? Briar having to burn…

“There are,” admitted Cyrus awkwardly.

“Good advice, bro!” said Briar, his face changing to the raw enthusiasm that looked more natural on him. “I’m definitely going to suggest that to them!” And he was gone before Cyrus could say another word.

I wonder, mused Cyrus to himself, if the next time the three stars make a request of me, they’re not going to be asking.

Cyrus looked somewhat longingly at the pillow on his bed. As long as he had this pulsing headache, he wasn’t going to be able to sleep. He had a stash of Tylenol, but he couldn’t take it on an empty stomach, and he hadn’t eaten anything all day. Cyrus didn’t particularly want to eat anything…he could still see the Spider tearing flesh from the bones of that poor kid…but Cyrus was also willing to do anything that brought him one step closer to sleep.

Cyrus walked to the cafeteria on the 30th floor. Many of the elevators were now out, having been the site of conflict for psychics versus Spiders. A few other people were also pilfering food from the cafeteria. Cyrus grabbed a bag of chips, a soda, and an apple. It was no three-course meal, but it was enough for him to take some pain medication and get the hell to sleep. He sat a table by himself, chewing despondently on his apple.





Briar sat at a desk in the classroom designated as the meeting place for the three stars. A few three stars had already shown up, but it was nowhere near the crowd he would have thought. I hope they all got the message… Briar agreed with Cyrus that the star system was arbitrary, but he didn’t necessarily think that it made it useless. Someone had to step up and organize stuff, and it might as well be the three stars.

They had agreed to meet at 3. Which seemed appropriate, now that Briar thought about it. Briar looked at the round clock on the wall. 2:55…





Wednesday groaned. She hurt like hell. The last thing she could remember was watching the gigantic Spider go down, finally. She had released the force field, and promptly turned to laugh and point at the ridiculous dancing boy. Then she had fainted mid-laugh.

Wednesday sat up. She was in a classroom transformed into a sick bay, with the desks cleared out and lines and lines of unconscious people laid down on blankets. Healers ran back and forth with first aid kits.

“Hey,” called out Wednesday, her voice weak at first. She coughed and tried again. “Hey, I need help over here! I hurt like hell. Can’t one of you people do something about that?”

Luke was in a word completely worn out, freezing an entire hallway and then the few spiders he faced, and the legs of the giant spider. He wasn't exactly invicible. Though at the message of going up to the 55 floor just for a meeting. He sighed pushing himself out of his own bed. "I hate it here already.." He mumbled off to himself and made his way up the the classroom where the meeting was suppose to be held.

Once reaching the place he found a seat in the back, he didn't feel like having to be up front; no this gave him a chance to pass out and act like he was listening. Then again, he needed to stay awake; he was one of the three stars; he had to pay attention. He groaned alittle trying to get comfortable in his seat, looking to the little white haired boy. "So, what exactly is this meeting for, I'm sure all of us are exhausted, couldn't this have waited another hour or so?" He asked curiously, he wasn't really complaining, but he wanted to get that out of the way just in case someone else was going to get all angry and start snapping off something along the lines of that.

Hallways , bathrooms , roof

Jake was still groaning as he slumped around the school. A few hours ago he was just waking up , a bit soar and scraped up but his little end battle nap had at least given him some energy back. When he heard that someone -else- killed the spider he stormed out of the 'infirmary' swearing like a sailor. He wanted credit for that , but after awhile he realised he would have rather -not- gotten any credit at all. People were constantly tugging and pulling him around the school to fix things. Bathrooms being the biggest request and personal belongings being the next one. While Jake -did- fix up a few toilets , urinals and stalls he absolutely refused to waste any effort on other students peronal belongings saying "Even if a three star leader asked me to fix your I-pod I would just flip him the bird and keep walking."

Despite saying that to -alot- of people he kept getting requests to use his power to fix almsopt everything that had even been so much as scuffed in the 'test' they had just passed and in earnest he was a little worried. 'If things are already -this- bad for me , it's gonna get alot worse when those three stars actually decide to crown themselves leaders. I'll be used as a end all fix-it man....bullsh**.' With a sigh and more grumbling Jake made his way to the cafeteria , looking through the stocks for anything and settling on three apples and a lemon.

While wandering around Jake had seen a couple people from the battle. In the infirmary he saw wednesday and thought that she was rather 'hot' and were it not for Jakes wounded pride he probably would have used the oppurtunity to hit on her. He had also seen Luke in his random wanderings and exchanged a brief 'thanks for saving my ass , next time can you use warmer ice?' to him before laughing and going on his way.

Now that the fight was over he had no clear goal. He needed orders , direction...anything. He needed someone to tell him how to help with out it boilnig down to 'hey I want this fixed , so fix it.' and he was not getting that. So here he sat on the roof , looknig over the side at the giant spider corpse lurching at the school. Nail in it's head , frozen legs and bleeding from it's chest....pretty , taking more and more drags from his smoke as he did. Just waiting.

At that moment, Ruby casually walked through the door. She looked incredibly exhausted, as though she'd ran up every single flight of stairs, but she was hiding it pretty well. She had, up until now, been avoiding interaction with the others, although she had been holding her own in the battle against the spiders.

She removed the earphones from her head and leaned on the door as she opened it. "Huh," she said with a smile. "First one here I guess. What's up, fearless leaders?"

While the star below her eye looked legit, the other two flanking it were obviously drawn on with sharpie.

James had thrown his spider arms to the side somewhere in his room and had nothing left to do. He'd already dragged as many I-beams as he was willing, already swept up a fair portion of his side of the school, and had already taken a hatchet to a few spiders, Who came to school with a hatchet?, once someone had mentioned that they could eat the corpses in case there wasn't enough food. Still, the menial labour could only hold his interest for so long and once it was done he bummed a cigarette of a kid that was running around healing people,

"I can fix the damage it does."

Was the explanation he'd given when he passed it off to James. James sat there, enjoying the Pall Mall for a few minutes and then throwing it out of the window when he'd finished it. He had a few more somewhere in his bedroom, he should've gotten those instead of asking someone for them. He wandered the halls for a little while, stopping and turning back whenever he came across a clog of spider corpses someone'd chopped up. "Hey, all three stars should go up to room fourteen on the east wing, floor fifty-five."

"What?" James asked the kid, who was clearly out of breath and sweating.

"Are you a three star?"

"...Yes." James answered after a moment of hesitation.

"Then you have to go to floor fifty-five and room fourteen on the east wing."

"Will do." James answered, tasting the belief around the boy. The kid then ran off, and left the sound of slapping sneakers behind him. "Well then. I know where I'm going."

Sarah had slept for a while and had some energy back, but also had a slitting head-ache. She arrived at classroom 14 on the East wing of the 55th floor after receiving the message. She found a seat beside the window and sat down. Sarah looked around the room at the other three stars. the boy, Luke, spoke first.
"So, what exactly is this meeting for, I'm sure all of us are exhausted, couldn't this have waited another hour or so?" She considered this for a second.
"I'm not the one who organized this meeting, however, I understand why we were all summoned here. This spider problem is a lot worse than anyone had expected. The spiders were bigger, stronger and faster than we had anticipated and we were unprepared. Not everyone has been brought to fight. We need roles. We need people to fight, defend, heal, clean up afterwards etc. Also, for the fighters, we are going to have to give them fighting lessons. I know how to fight hand to hand, with a knife and with a bo staff. We need to organize ourselves in a way that will beneficial for everyone. Finally. There is no room for heroics. We do not need people who will just run off and start killing spiders for kicks, or so that other people will look up to them. We lost a lot of men and women tonight because of this and it must stop now. It. Will. Stop. Now." She leaned back in her seat to hear everyone else's contributions.

Seph tore a bite out of the turkey sandwich he'd gotten from the cafeteria. He was feeling extremely frustrated for a number of reasons. Mostly because his psychic stamina seemed to be far behind everyone else's. He was strong, he knew that, but what was the point of being powerful if you couldn't last? The other reason he was upset was because he heard about the three star meeting that was going on. If everyone was going to follow this star system, then where did he stand? He couldn't find a single star on his damn body. He was a no star. To his knowledge he was the only no star around. He stuffed the rest of the sandwich in his mouth and went off to go help finish cleaning up the spider corpses.

Noises filled Jimmy's head. He felt cold and he couldn't see clearly, just bright fuzz. Was he dead? Was this how one entered purgatory? Tried to move, but instead felt great pain. Nope, still alive. You can't feel pain when your dead. Jimmy squinted and his eyes finally came into focus. He was in a hospital. No, not a hospital, it was a class room made into a sick bay. He looked around the room, he saw kids in the beds whining broken apendages and other things. He saw healers running back and forth between patients, looking exhausted. He then heard a very whiny voice. He looked to his left and a few beds down he spotted Wednesday. She was complaining about how much she was in pain, though she sounded like she was annoyed.

Jimmy sat up a bit, his right shoulder was killing him. He looked at it and it was covered in gauze stained with blood. He then noticed that he wasn't wearing his Ninhakujo. As a matter of fact he wasn't wearing anything. Someone had completely stripped him. He felt very wrong being completely naked under a thin sheet in the same room with so many under age girls. He heard giggling in the corner, a couple of attendants who were folding sheets were giggling and whispering while looking at him. Jimmy knew that the battle was over, since there were no sounds of destruction. They had obviously won, since they were all still here. Jimmy wondered what was going on now.

Tyli was helping along with the wounded again, that way she felt a little less useless, even though it really didn’t matter as much. She noticed a guy sitting up, it was the guy one girl had undressed. She picked up underwear and went over to him, trying not to chuckle, it was a funny to have a guy completely naked with a room that was almost filled with girls. It would almost seem very wrong, she reached out to him, holding boxers. “Here, these might actually come in handy” she said, her lips where pressed tightly against each other to refrain from laughing, she didn’t wanted to come off as mean.

“I currently can’t find the clothes you where wearing a while ago, so please deal with these for a while, I’ll go find some pants in a little while.. That is.. If you are able too.. I just don’t think staying in one room with these girls, naked as a guy.. is a very good plan.. You know.. with the blanket and all” She was rambling a bit, a little embarrassed, hell she was talking to a naked guy! What girl wouldn't be slightly embaressed. She turned around so he could pull on the boxers under the clothes, if he was able to move that much, if not he will let her know probably. She didn't exacly know whose boxers these where, only that they had little puppy's on it, it was clean and it seemed about his size, judging from the rest of his body and stuff, she didn't actually peak.

Too tired...
Sarah stood up and walked out of the door then made her way towards her room. She started to get changed for bed. First her boots, then her jeans and then her dress/top. She lay under the covers wondering if anyone who had listened to her advice. She fell asleep and had the weirdest dream.

(Her dream)

"I shall destroy you where you stand if you don't remove yourself from my path." Sarah said coldly.
"You will stand down or I shall obliterate you!" The man with six arms said.
"Try and stop me!" She screamed back.
"Fine." The man put out his middle left hand and a beam of light shot from it hitting Sarah back into a wall before she could freeze it, a rare occurrence.
"Your going to regret that." She said standing up. She always followed through with her threats. She threw out her hands in an attempt to blow up the advanced spider. It sent him flying into the opposite wall.
Not what I was hoping for but I guess it will do.
He looked up at her and then stood up. "You will die!" He put all six of his hands and a wave of light hit her.

(Not her dream)

She awoke with a start. She dressed and left her room. In an attempt to clear her mind of the weird dream, she went to the kitchen. She grabbed a quick sandwich and headed for the makeshift infirmary. When there, she saw a girl give a boy boxers then him getting them on under the very thin sheet he was wearing. She crossed her arms and headed in, making her way to the almost naked boy.
"I'm pretty sure it's illegal to be naked in a public place. Though I'm pretty sure it won't count now that we are in the middle of war huh?" She wasn't even the least bit nervous or embarrassed speaking to a boy who was basically nude under the thin sheet of fabric separating him from everyone else as the girl who gave him the boxers was.
"See yo when your dressed." She said with a half smile. Sarah turned and started to walk away. Although she had a confidant gait, she still had a really hipsy walk which frustrated her to no end.

((Awww, no one wants to interact with Cyrus in the cafeteria. Sad face.))





Briar was starting to feel overwhelmed and confused again. He listened to Sarah's speech and found himself nodding along. What she was saying sounded similar to what Cyrus had been saying, so it must be good, right? After she was done, Briar stood and recited almost word for word what Cyrus had said about collecting information about people's skills and abilities (both psychic and otherwise). He punctuated his speech with a lot of fist bumps and "We can do it, guys!" Then he sat down, feeling very satisfied.

Behind him, the other three stars twittered amongst themselves. Finally one girl stood and pointed a finger at Ruby. "If we're going to collect information, then we should also collection information on stars! I mean, this is supposed to be a three star meeting, but there's obviously an impostor here! And who knows who else in this room is actually a three star?!"

A second girl stood up. "You're being ridiculous! What are you going to do, strip search everyone?!"

"If we have to," said the first girl.





"Oh, great," said Wednesday, scowling at Tyli. Jimmy was on the blanket next to her. "Here I am, practically dying, the savior of this whole damn building, but you'd rather flirt with the naked ninja wannabe." She waved her hand as if shooing away a fly. "Oh, but please don't mind me. Do carry on. I can see we have our priorities here, and naked men will always come first, won't they?"