Togame Amano's Story

"There's a flying person up there..." Sora thought while looking at Ryan in the clouds. "Sooo... this is the school... and the dorms are... Probably nearby?" She could feel something on her leg. After looking down, she saw a squirrel on her foot. "Aww! You're so cute!" The girl scratched the squirrel behind the ears and put it away from her leg. She barely made a few more steps, until she could feel that both of her legs had squirrels. "Sorry, but I don't know if I'm allowed to have pets..." She told them.

Before she could make another step, Sora was covered and surrounded by squirrels. "Ok, squirrels..." Sora muttered. "I get it... you like my legs... and arms... Now please, I have no time for this!" Sora might have the ability to communicate with animals, but it seemed like they weren't listening to her. Soon enough the girl was covered not only in squirrels, but also rabbits, bugs and other little animals. They were so many, Sora ended up on the floor. "Go away! Go away, animals!"
"You're hopeless..." Sora could hear Togame's voice nearby. "Togame! Please! Help me!" Sora screamed for help. She was also afraid she would accidentally hurt the animals while trying to get rid of them. "Nope." Togame calmly replied while walking away.

Togame finally came to room 300 and entered. Barely paying attention to the broken lamp and wall, she took a look at Tanya. "Great... Now I'll be roomed with a baby hamster..." She muttered instead of greeting or introducing to the little girl.

Sora's hair looked like a tornado. Her clothes were slightly ruffled. "Finally! The rooms! Room 302, here I come!" The girl quickly entered in a room. She could feel slight chill, then she noticed Chris, who was unpacking. Well that was weird - she thought that the roommates had to be the same gender. "Excuse me... Are you Eclipse O'Connor?... Is this room 302?" Sora opened the door, went out, looked at the room number and felt a massive amount of blood rushing trough her face when she realized she entered in room 303. "Never mind, bye!" She quickly closed the door.

"This is the right room. 302." Sora entered. "Hi...." She greeted Eclipse. "My name is Sora Markovska... N-nice to meet you..."

Tanya looked up at her new roomate, having just been woken up by the sound of the door oppening. Luckily she was a light sleeper, and so she didn't miss the possibility of making a new friend, or at least what she thought could be a freind. Baby hamster... that must be a silly english term. But hamsters were cute and fluffy and baby hamsters were... well, they were actually kind of ugly, but most people didn't know that

And so she looked up at her new roomate and smiled brightly, "Thank you" she said happily, "I am Tanya. You are Togame, no?" Due to her thick accent, she pronounced Togame's name Toogami. Despite her priviously terrible mood, Tanya literally emanated curiosity and happiness, emotions that she unintentionally pushed onto the other girl. However, instead of a heavy push, it was simply an undertone, something that she could refuse easily.

"What are you thanking for?" Togame asked. "You're a weird kid..." However, for a strange reason, Togame felt interested in the little girl. She has never felt like that when it came to meeting new people "Yep. It's pronounced To-ga-me. Your accent is weird, are you Slavic?" Togame wouldn't normally start asking questions, because she would be too busy minding her own busyness. However, this kid took her curiosity, but only for a while. Probably she wouldn't even listen if Tanya replied.

"You must be Eclipse..." Sora was talking to the blonde girl. "I'm here for the first time and I'm a little nervous... Are you here for the first time too?" Suddenly a blissful sound of guitar caressed Sora's ears. "Is... Is that... Three Days Grace?" Sora's pulse started speeding up, until she became hysterical. "Oh my God! Someone is playing a song of Three Days Grace! Someone is actually playing guitar here! A neighbor! Our neighbor can play a song of Three days grace!" Sora took Eclipse's arms and started jumping in joy. "How awesome is that? Wait..." The girl suddenly stopped. "Isn't it coming from room..." She suddenly gasped. "Oh my god! I just mistook my room with the room of the guitar player! Aaah!" Sora hit her forehead with her palm. "This is just embarrassing... And I just went hysterical in front of you, isn't that a great introduction... I wonder what his name is..."

Chris overheard the two girls next door go crazy over his guitar playing. He laughed to himself, he wasn't the only one who could play. Still playing, he tried to think of who else played guitar here. "Oh, yea, it was Ryan. He was pretty good at it, too." He stopped playing guitar and tried to think of a song he could sing to. "Hmm, nope, no. Ah, there is that one," he thought as he moved his hands to their appropriate frets, and began to play again. It was another Three Days Grace song, but this time it was Never Too Late. He waited for his cue,

"This world will never be,
what I expected.
And if there's something wrong,
who would have guessed it?
I will not leave alone,
everything that I own,
to make you feel like
it's not too late.
It's never too late..."

Ah, the first day of a new school year, I remember it like it was yesterday. I woke up, yawned, stretched, and then rolled out of bed.
In retrospect, it may have been a good idea to not take top bunk when we were calling dibs in the room.
One pile of sheets on the floor later, I was up and ready to go, having dressed the night before in my trademark dark jeans, black socks, and black shirt. Throwing on my (also trademark)black trenchcoat(Thin enough material to flap dramatically in the breeze, just like I like it, and let me tell you, it is HELL trying to find material that perfect.), I walked out the door, sending a tentacle of my aura over to my desk to grab my key to the room before the door closed.
Allow me to explain my power a bit, just in case you weren't paying attention before. I can create something called an "aura", and as long as I have the mental stamina and an idea as to how to do something, I can make almost limitless possibilities. For example, if I wanted to cover a lot of ground and had a tree nearby, I could make a tentacle of aura wrap around a branch, harden my trenchcoat into wings(hence why I like it thin), and basically make myself into one of those little glider toys I used to play with when I was a kid. Of course, like anything, this takes up energy, quite directly from my mind, at that. If I have too much going on or I break my aura(which is rather difficult, at least for those who try), it takes a LOT to keep it up, at least until I lessen my load or the damage repairs, at which point it takes very little toll. But now I'm just digressing. Flash forward a while, and I was finally walking through the halls of the dorms, before I remembered to grab my backpack from the room. Two flights up. This... was NOT my day. Throwing a whip of aura up the stairwell, I pulled myself up the stairs and swung over the rail, landing on my floor and dusting myself off.
As I was about to enter my room again, I heard what appeared to be Three Days Grace. Disgusted, I focused my aura into my hands and formed a bow, then the fiddle it went to(What were YOU thinking?). Tapping the strings to make sure they were tuned(just because I made the thing doesn't mean I made it perfect), I began playing a song I had fallen in love with a few years back. So that I could make sure I wasn't seen by anyone else, I stayed hidden by the stairwell, the light pulsing purple of my aura and pale grey hair(it's hereditary, shut up) the only indicator the someone was there. As I got into the song, I made a drum and a few other instruments behind me with an extension of the bow's aura. Because I didn't know how to play any of them, I just made the parts that needed to vibrate resonate with their parts in the song, thus giving the same result as the area I was in amplified all my sound.
"I won't blame the hurting on you, you left in the sweetest way...
I won't say that it's you, making me feel this way.
It's the heart, and the soul, and the body, and the brain driving me insane,
but the wind, and the land, and the fire, and the rain always stay the same...

Ai, ai, ai
Wanna roll with the wind, bringing distance to everything
Ai, ai, ai, whoa

Ai, ai, ai
Wanna sit by the fire and glance at the pouring rain
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai, ai..."
As I leaned against the wall in the alcove, continuing the song, the stress of playing several instruments at once began to give me a headache, but to piss off the guy playing TDG, it was worth it. He was lucky I didn't launch into one of my Irish songs. Maybe later at a party.
(Link to the song for those who haven't heard it. And shame on you for taking this long to get to it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxiDmCr3h7Q)

Slavic... Tanya cocked her head to the side ever so slightly. She didn'ty think she was slavic. She was Russian though. And being ten, and ignorant of anyher own history in Russia, she was unaware that they meant the same thing. "I do not zink so... I am from Russia zough. Well, my momma says I am from Russia. I do not remember it zough. Are you Slavic? And what does Slavic mean?" Her accent was still there, but she tried to repress it in an attempt to impress her new roomate just a little bit. She sat on the edge of her bed, looking up at the slightly older girl with innocence and a sort of admiration.

Without even waiting for an answer, she continued on her rant. "And zank you for ze right way to speak your name. I am sorry I did it wrong Togame. It is a pretty name. You-" She stopped suddenly, looking down at the broken lamp. "I didn't do zat by ze way," she lied quickly, not wanting Togame to be mad at her.

Telepathy - the ability to communicate with others via thoughts. There were living creatures who had this power. That included the Dark Lord, who was trying to communicate with...
"Dark..." The telepathy conversation started. "I want you to know about the students and the staff here as much as you can. I want you to know their desires, their fears, their strengths and weaknesses... I want you to pretend to be a student... and befriend them... Make them like you, trust you, and tell you their secrets... so we can use them in our advantage...

Sora went silent when Eclipse's wings wrapped around both of them. "N-no worries..." She muttered, still in surprise. "Do you want to go outside and greet the neighbors?" It wasn't only because she wanted to see who could play music instruments. She wanted to befriend many people, or at least those at the same floor.

"Mhm... Russia..." Togame only responded. "And I have no idea what you didn't do... If you didn't make a huge hole in the floor, that's fine..."

"Eclipse, I'm going to get my schedule, because if I don't get it now, I'll forget about it. I'll be right back!" Sora smiled at Eclipse and walked out. In the hallway she found a whole group of guys and she gasped, because she couldn't help, but notice there was a... "Cute kitten!" Sora squealed. She started petting the kitten, as it calmed down and started purring in Cyrus' arms.
Happily, Sora continued her way.

"I'm bored, I'm going outside." Togame thought. She simply walked out of the room, without telling anything else to Tanya. Will the little Russian girl follow her roommate? Togame hoped she wouldn't, but who knows...

"This guy over there looks familiar..." Sora was thinking, after she noticed Chris, who wasn't far away. "Wait! Isn't that..." Sora was about to finish her thoughts, when she suddenly tripped and fell forwards. She got used to that, since she trips and falls often. Some wounds on her knees weren't fully healed yet.

"Thank you!" Sora replied to Kaitlin. "My name is..."
"Mega Klutz." Togame interrupted. "If you went to a contest for clumsiness, they would reject you, because of not accepting professionals."
"Shut up, Togame!" Sorra yelled. "Shut up, Togame!" Her younger cousin mockingly imitated her.

In frustration, Sora took Kaitlin's hand and started walking. Normally, she wouldn't do anything like that to a stranger, but in those few seconds she was very angry.

The anger was quickly replaced with her own nature. She looked at the blonde girl and said "Sorry for dragging you like that. One can't go and take the schedule without being mocked at, heh..." She chickled awkwardly. "I'm Sora Markovska, Im in 11th grade. Which grade are you?" She asked Kaitlyn.

A black and gauzy ribbon-like line was swooping around the hallway walls. It was growing and disappearing at the same time. Suddenly, the whole floor got pitch black. The blackness shattered in pieces, which violently started moving around the hallway, to the stairs and most likely - to the other floors.

Each of the pieces invaded the mind of every single living creature in the dorm building. It attacked their five senses, sped up the pulse and breathing of most of them, and started fighting with their psyche. Some could barely feel it, although they were affected enough to notice it.

"What was that?" Togame thought.

Others almost got a mental breakdown, as both their organs and mind state were struggling with darkness.

Sora collapsed on her knees, holding her head, screaming for help. Her thoughts were rushing and fighting, her heart was pounding. She went silent and started breathing heavily.

It affected each of them differently. However, everyone now knew something was wrong.