Axel Lerate's Story

Axel raised an eyebrow to her rather... intimate question. The look on his face was sort of a willing confusion.
"Sure... But do what? Do you a favor, do you a deal, do your hair? I'm sort of at a loss for words here..." His voice only showed how confused he was.
(OOC: Captain Grammar Nazi/Oblivious, AWAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! *soars off with a swastika overlaid on a sideways heart*)

Axel heard others enter the mansion as he awoke from having fallen back asleep again. His mind first leapt to intruders, but then he remembered that the other students had been on a mission and forced the blade he had made to dissipate back into his aura. He looked at Anna, fast asleep on his(now numb) arm again. He smiled a little, glad that he had such a great friend, and let himself fall asleep on the couch again, having used his good hand to project his aura to the television's power button. That DVD menu music got annoying FAST, and he already had heard it thousands of times. As he drifted off, he thought about that blond girl he'd met before. She hadn't been the best at rolling out the welcome mat, but Anna had proved nice enough... Axel pondered on the idea of who each of the other students was and would be like. Perhaps there'd be a fellow mediaphile around for him to talk to! He just simply prayed that there wouldn't be any redheads. The Doctor might like 'em. Axel didn't.

Axel woke up at 5:30 in the morning, at his usual time, and rubbed the sand out of his eyes. Slowly, he lifted Anna up off the couch on his aura, carrying her on what was essentially a cloud of mental energy up to her room. He wandered to the room that he remembered her stopping by for her clothes. Without a sound, he placed a single finger on the lock, letting his aura fill the chambers and push the cylinders out of place. As the door swung open, he walked up to Anna's bed and lifted the covers, laying her down and pulling the blanket over her. Then, just a silently as he entered, he was gone, using his aura to muffle the sound of the door closing. As he walked through the hallways trying to find a way to kill some time, he thought about the lake, and the fact that he needed to practice. {Well,} he thought, firing up his mindblock for the day, {Best to kill two birds with one stone, eh?}, and he walked past the gardens to the lake, feeling the click of his prosthetic on the cobblestone as he arrived at the lake. Then, he completely let loose.
He ran out and jumped off a ledge over the lake, and his aura burst out into a large field of floating bars of psychic energy over the open water. He grabbed a rung and began swinging through the air, using his upper body strength to pull himself above the freezing water like an American Ninja champion. As the sun began to rise, it reflected off his personal obstacle course, lighting up the school in a display of purples and pinks. Axel himself sat 50 feet above the lake on a small platform watching the rising sun, now shirtless. He didn't know how it got into the lake. And he didn't feel like diving down to get it.

Daniel's random encounter occurred right outside the entrance to the cafeteria. As he was about to enter the land of milk and honey and other things that go in food, a clicking sound was heard as a new guy with black hair a serious love for the color black came running down the hall.
"Heads up!" He said as he began to skid to a halt. One gap in the tile hitting his prosthetic later, and anyone who was a Pokemon fan could almost see the A WILD AXEL HAS APPEARED! as he began tumbling through the air towards his human crash pad.

Daniel

Oddly enough, it seemed like the very moment Danny entertained the 'random encounter' thought was the moment he heard someone call "Heads up!" Clearly the universe was up to its old tricks again. Fair enough, he had kind of been tempting it. He looked around just in time to catch sight of what looked like a bundle of black something hurtling toward him far too fast. This time, though, his reflexes saved him: He stopped time the moment he instinctively registered that person-sized objects moving toward him that fast couldn't be good, giving him as much time as he needed to casually step aside and note that the UBO (Unidentified Black Object) was in fact a guy dressed up like he was going to an emo poetry reading.

When time restarted, the oddly-dressed one hurtled forward unimpeded to crash on the ground. Danny winced. That looked painful. But he couldn't stop himself from muttering "Now that was crash." Because he loved that show. Hopefully the mode wasn't too bad. He strode over to the unfortunate victim of momentum and offered a hand to help him up. "You okay, man?"

Chandler

Moving wasn't an option and while Zoe went to dress, Chandler couldn't even bring himself to do the same. Eventually he did strip off his shirt, the smell alone enough to bother him into pasting on deodorant and pull on a deep blue replacement. By the time he managed all this, Zoe had returned.

"Of course," he announced and took her arm.

To pop them out to the hall just in time to see a blob of black clothing collide with the ground.

Chandler blinked. Then laughed. Very hard.

Zoe

Zoe was relaxed as Chandler grabbed her arm, she assumed they were going to be teleported and she was correct. They appeared in the hall in front of the lunch room to see a person sized black blob crash into the floor.

Zoe was confused at first at what just happened, and Chandler seemed to find it extremely funny. Zoe looked around to see the thing that collided with the ground was actually a person, a person who she had never seen before, and though he just collided with the floor he could be dangerous.

Axel's tumble took him completely by surprise, dissipating the prosthetic he HAD been materializing for his missing one. As he rolled out of it, he looked up to see the guy he had been thankful enough to miss{Odd, I was flying right at him. Teleportation, maybe?}, who then proceeded to ask him if he was alright. With an evil thought, Axel decided to mess with him a little bit.
"Yeah, but that crash hurt-" he said, then proceeded to look down. "Is there a reason I can't feel my left leg right now?" He then proceeded to pull up his leg to look at the stump that cut off just below the knee, not revealing any emotion. "Huh. Must have crashed harder than I thought." he said, rolling the pant leg back down, then rolling it back up and sparing no amount of reaction.
"HOLY CRAP, MY LEG IS MISSING! MY DREAM OF BEING A BALLERINA IS CRUSHED!"
After any semblance of him actually being serious was shot, he grinned and stood himself up with Daniel's help, then made his running blade again, pulsating purple with renewed mental energy.
"I'm fine, but thanks for asking! The name's Axel Lerate, both my parents had to be given some pretty heavy drugs when I was born, so... Yeah. That happened. I was just sent here after someone at my old school of Belmont High tried dividing by zero. And by that, I mean their pyrokinesis went out of control and they blew the place up. SO! You have my name, can I have the honor of yours?" As his coat ruffled a bit, the interior exposed a green lining, revealing that he wasn't as emo as expected, just a lover of black.

Daniel

"Axel, huh?" Danny replied when the new guy introduced himself. "I got it memorized." He tapped the side of his head, grinning. When this was met with silence, he looked around at those gathered (which at some point had come to include Chandler and Zoe) incredulously. "What, no one got that?" He folded his arms, muttering something about 'plebians' and motioned for Axel to continue.

Despite what would have been an awesome reference falling flat by virtue of nobody understanding it, Danny smiled again at the story. "Dude, you have an awesome life," he remarked, then extended his hand to Axel. "My name's Danny Chance, proud geek and recovering nerd. I fight spies for a living and, until about forty seconds ago, I was the new guy." He shrugged. "It was fun while it lasted."

Axel just gave a blank look to Danny, then smiled.
"Sorry, but I don't carry a chakram with me, and as far as I know, I'm not a HEARTLESS dude. And trust me, I'm glad to reprieve you of your newbie status. I already got a tour, though, so no need to tell me where anything is." He spoke with an almost unsure tone, as if he wasn't sure it was okay to blatantly refuse an unmentioned offer.

Zoe

Zoe blinked twice as she watched the two of them, Danny and Axel, as they spoke to each other. She instinctively went closer to Chandler, going closest to the person she knew the most in order to avoid awkward situations. Axel seemed relatively tame, but she was still wary after the whole mission, she knew she was being paranoid for not trusting him, but she didn't really trust herself let alone other people.

"Uh, so food. Right?" Zoe asked rhetorically to Chandler, hoping he didn't want to stay in the hall too long. She had made up with Danny, and they were becoming more friendly, but she still wasn't the most social person.

Daniel

Danny gave Axel a look that suggested to the casual passerby that the black-clad boy had just cursed and blasphemed every god in Danny's pantheon. "Dude." He said coldly. "Axel was a nobody. They're the body and mind left over when the heart- Gah, seriously?! Do you even play the games?" If he had a hat he would have thrown it on the ground. Not recognizing the reference was ignorant, but getting it wrong? That was just criminal. Arms crossed once again, Danny turned around and marched off toward the breakfast spread, thoroughly insulted. Even the double-bacon sandwich with bits of lettuce and tomato thrown in didn't make him feel better.

Zoe

Zoe was lost with the whole argument, Danny seemed infuriated by something the new kid said though. She guessed it wasn't that serious though, as Chandler was thoroughly amused by it.

Zoe tingled as she felt Chandler's arm wrap around her. He led her into the dining room which seemed recently cleaned. The tiled floors were glossy, and another buffet was set up on a large dining table, covered in a silk white table cloth. There were separate booths on each side of the room as well. She wondered why there were so many seats for a school with so few students, she assumed the faculty ate here as well or something.

At Chandler's mention of the salad for breakfast Zoe couldn't help but laugh. She doubted anyone in the school was vegetarian, but who knew. "Maybe the school's big secret is that they're hiding rabbits," Zoe suggested sarcastically as she picked up a plate and began picking up some food. When she was done with her plate she glanced towards Chandler. "Where do you wanna sit?" She asked, hoping it would be away from another possible fight between Danny and Axel.

Axel grinned as Danny stormed off. The first step was laid, and as he walked up to Danny's table, he placed one hand down on it's surface and grinned, forming KH Axel's reverse-teardrop marking, which were thankfully purple in the first place so Danny wouldn't think he was just being rude with his next statement.
"You didn't think after that introduction, I would give up oh so easily?" He said, and then broke into an even bigger grin, dissipating the teardrops, "Besides, I said I WASN'T a Heartless. I never said anything about not being a Nobody. Because if I end up with no friends other than Anna, no offense to her, I'll be closer to being my Organization counterpart in more ways than one." He stayed silent for a few seconds, then drummed a quick beat on the tabletop. "Right, I'll let you get back to your BBlt, I still need to take a shower from my morning exercise, because lake water doesn't cut it, and I've seen too much TMNT to trust the sewer water. Allons-y!" With that, he took off at a brisk pace to the hot spring, stripping faster than an exotic dancer and dropped into the water, leaving his boxers on. He remembered his first night, and didn't want a repeat minus clothes.

Zara

Even though Zara knew the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, and didn't exactly condone, she couldn't help imagining the end result...she liked babies. Up until they learned to talk and turned on you. "I wonder what the baby will look like," she mused, comparing Mikhail and Hallie together in her mind and trying to find the combo in baby form, "I'll bet it's cute. You know what's funny, though? Or ironic. Mikhail's parents were both teenagers when he was born. I think his mom was like 16, and his dad was only 19. And they also weren't married at the time. And now Mikhail's kid is going to be born the same way! What a riot."

James seemed distracted, which Zara understood. She was mostly babbling to herself. Though it would be nice if he listened even just a little. When he asked if he was hungry, though, she nodded enthusiastically. She felt like she hadn't eaten in days!

She led both of them to the cafeteria, where Danny, Chandler, Zoe, and a new guy had gathered already. "Sheesh, another new kid?" she asked, piling on breakfast. For some reason, she didn't feel like eating pancakes, and went for the waffles instead. "You think we should join them, or should we sit by ourselves?"

Mikhail

Hallie ran off, demanding to be alone, and Mikhail was honestly very confused.

He didn't know what he did to set her off. Was it something he said? He called her 'star-head'...did she not like the nickname? Or did she think it was something more than that? He thought it was fairly casual. He had called her star-head even when they weren't dating! Right? He was pretty sure he did....or at least something to that affect...besides, she had started the nicknames with "Russian boy". He was just following suit! It wasn't like he had called her 'babe'.

He debated going after her, but she explicitly otherwise. He sighed, and leaned his one cue stick against the table. He looked out at the remaining balls, and after a few seconds, squinted slightly. One by one, they rolled towards the pockets, accelerating as they neared, like they were falling sideways, or the table had suddenly tilted. The stripes fell in first, then the solids, and finally the 8-ball. He replaced the cues and left.

After standing in the empty hallway, wondering where he should go without upsetting Hallie, he finally elected to go back to his room. It was close to her, but hey, it was his room. He could go there if he wanted, and he'd just leave her be. He doubted he'd run into her, and if he did, he'd just look the other way...

Wait, was he trying to avoid her then? When did that happen? Even if she didn't want to be with him, shouldn't he still be there for her? But if he cared, he should just give her space....ugh, this was all so confusing. He wanted to talk to Zara, but last he saw, she had been concerned with James. Funny how close the two had gotten. A few weeks ago, Mikhail would have been totally against the idea, but as of late, he thought much better of James. Especially since without him, Zara would have died. Or close to it.

He found his room finally, bypassing the activity in the cafeteria, and immediately turned on his computer, still not noticing the familiar clothes that didn't belong to him. Blasting Britney Spears, he decided to clear his mind and relax before talking to Zara. Even though he had an outer layer of calm, internally he was a mess of confusion, hurt feelings and regret, to name a few. He needed to take his mind off things, and hacking was the solution.

Hallie

She noted Daniel's friendly gestures as she folded her arms over her chest. As accepting as she wanted to be, her instincts told her not to trust any of them. Okay, maybe not instincts. Part of her really did want to go sit with them. With her newfound control over her ability, she may be able to hold a five minute conversation before needing to walk away from her headaches. But it freaked her out, suddenly able to put on walls that blocked out emotions, or able to identify wavelengths without absorbing the emotions.

She cautiously lifted her hand, spread her fingers and gave a half-wave back. Managing a smile would be asking too much. In fact, all she could bring herself to do was bite her lip and turn back into the hallway. They seemed to be having a good time. She just couldn't picture herself among them.

So she started back to the dorm hall. Then remembered Mikhail was over there. She stopped and huffed. As familiar as his wavelength was, he couldn't be sure. Not yet. Just not yet.

Wandering didn't seem safe, but she ended up doing just that. She noted each finding. The teacher hallway. The library that looked like the stuff of hyperbole movie versions of rich people libraries filled with books no one read. The infirmary. The gazebo. Empty classrooms. A gymnasium. After awhile, she had a good map forming in her head of each area.

When she found a hallway that was warmer than the others, she gratefully hurried down it. Her arms relaxed in the orange light and she sighed in happiness seeing what seemed like a pool or hot springs area. A boy was there, another that she didn't recognize, but she was on the other side of the room and hid behind a wall. She lowered on the edge of this side of the springs and dipped a toe in. Oh so warm! Quickly she stripped her jeans and let her legs swirl around the warm depths happily. It was relaxing in here. Warm. Maybe this is where they pumped all the warm air then.

She laid back, closing her eyes, feet still tingling in the warm water. It was nice and she tried to rid her mind of all troubling thoughts.

Liesel

Liesel sighed with a slight smirk when Mikhail closed the door. Well, at least she wasn't too suspicious in his eyes. Maybe Danny was the only one who was really suspicious of her...no, there were probably others too, but she'd deal with that later. She walked down the hall, wondering what was bothering him. Then she remembered something from earlier on that she didn't really notice at first, Hallie had walked past them and seemed quite disoriented...and blushy. Liesel wondered why Hallie would be acting like that if her and Mikhail were dating.

As she entered the lockerrooms for the hot springs, stripping off her clothes except for her bra and panties, in case there were actually people in there; it seemed entirely plausible that whatever was bothering Mikhail was bothering Hallie as well. She made a mental note to check that out, any advantage was worth looking into.

It seemed like luck was on her side (it pretty much always was) when she walked into the hot springs and saw Hallie there, enjoying the warm water. It was a difficult situation, and there were pretty good chances that Hallie was going to leave when she noticed she was there, so Liesel knew she had to handle things delicately. Liesel sat down on the ground, placing her legs into the water and felt a warm sensation rush over her. "Um...hey" Liesel stated awkwardly, making sure her presence was known. "You're Hallie right?" She asked, "I'm Liesel...we didn't really get a proper introduction in the mansion after...everything happened," she said clearing her throat.

Zoe

...There were a lot of people at the table. For the most part Zoe just silently sat at the side, taking small bites out of her food as she listened to what they were all saying. She smiled back at Chandler before he devoured his waffles and found his appetite amusing. Things were a bit weird for her but it was okay, she wasn't panicking, she couldn't let that happen. There were only like, five people there including herself, but that was still kind of a lot to her. Soon enough the numbers at the table slowly began depleting as Zara and James left, and Zoe began calming down a bit. She wondered what was wrong though, and guessed it had something to do with the after effects of the mission.

Adrien

Adrien came to the table, bored of waiting to be invited. "Do you guys mind if I sit here?" He asked with a smile.

Axel blinked as he saw the blonde from two days ago step into the springs, and gave a quick wave, glad his mental block was still active.
"Hey, Hallie-" was all he was able to fire off before another girl stepped into the spring, and Axel immediately went silent. He may have been totally socially awkward, but he knew two women needing to talk was no man's land.

Hallie

A boy called out causing her to sit up in surprise. She frowned, realizing he could see her, but then was bombarded with another voice, closer. Hallie jumped, hand to her heart.

"Mansion...right..." she started, pulling her feet from the water. Water was relaxing. This wasn't relaxing. Liesel...the name was familiar...connected with red hair...Hallie rubbed her eyes against the orange light of the hot springs room. "Everything...that happened..."

Her eyes scanned back to the boy and she waved back absently. A name popped in her head. Axel.

Her head hurt very badly, but more mentally, not physically.

Then Hallie remembered this girl, this Liesel, was talking with Mikhail. Chest tight, she asked, "You're friends with Mikhail?" she asked, just wanting to piece together her in relation to Mikhail. She needed to understand that boy, that Russian slightly green-haired blonde boy.

Liesel

There was another boy close by to them, one she hadn't noticed. She realized that the door that separated the two different sides was still opened and sighed, the warm water was too relaxing to leave just to close a door. Though she made sure to keep her towel on just in case.

Something was up with Hallie though...maybe she was extremely tired from the mission...she wasn't sure, but she had to find out. "I wouldn't exactly say friends...more of acquaintances...but I know a few things of him," Liesel said, slowly moving her legs with the flow of the water. She decided she wanted to get to the bottom of this, and began concentrating, searching for the most probable explanation for Hallie's behavior. Just before she was about to ask whether or not they were dating she was hit with a probability, which might have just saved her. There was a ninety percent chance Hallie had memory loss. Liesel took this into consideration, and eventually decided that she would go with it.

"If you want I can answer any questions," Liesel stated, "About the mission, people in the school, stuff like that, and I'll answer to my best ability. Help you re-jog your memory," she finished. If asked how she knew about the memory loss she could just say she overheard a Nurse, or be honest and say it was her power. There were ups and downs to both ideas but she'd only have to think about it if it came down to it.