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Post by Rikka on Dec 27, 2012 21:17:14 GMT -5
Ash jumped as she was singled out by the teacher. Technically he had said a group of less then seven. If her chimeras didn't count that meant she was still in a group of less then seven. Not wanting to argue and draw more attention to herself she accepted the invitation from Stein and joined the girls group as the four Chimeras followed behind her. Looking at her group she noted that she was with Mockingbird, Stein and the Anulupis girl. As she introduced herself as Horo looked down at her chimeras. This was going to be a long class period. Did he have anything else in mind for the groups?
Mizu stumbled behind the group as she attempted to keep up. When they got to Ash she crawled between her feet and sat there as she tried to make herself less noticeable. Shiro and Rue on the other hand ran round everyone's feet as they inspected the new group. Rue looked up at Mockingbird and attempted to get his attention. "Hello! I am Rue!" Her words sounded a little off but she was still learning to speak. Shiro looked up at Horo and watched as she gained ears and a tail then lost them again. "How did you do that?!"
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Post by mockingbird on Dec 28, 2012 16:41:46 GMT -5
Mockingbird shook his head, as he watched Horo’s tail and ears appear, disappear and then rapidly reappear. “ Hey Horo, how good of control do you have over the vibrations of molecules? What did you call it? Pulse?” he questioned, once again writing in his notebook. Hmm.. Wonder what all she can actually do. This could be very interesting. As Mockingbird heard a small voice talking, he glanced down toward his feet. “Why hello there Rue. I’m Mockingbird.” he said as he reached down to scratch the little puppy looking creature. Wonder what he will have us do this time. Quickly, he scanned the group around him. Stein, Horo, Ash, those puppy looking things and me. This will be very interesting. Mockingbird silently thought to himself, as he waited for the next set of instructions.
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Post by Stein on Dec 29, 2012 13:05:53 GMT -5
Damu ran over to join Stein’s group, and stopped to say hi to Stein before landing next to Rue in front of Mockingbird, he was staring at Mockingbirds ring before speaking up “Your rings are sharp …why do you wear rings? Do they work like Stein’s screw?...or are they ninja knives….you must be good with knives…Stein said you have a lot of them”
Stein saw Damu speaking to Mockingbird and followed him over to Mockingbird; She walked past Ash on the way and smiled at her and Mizu before talking to Mockingbird. this could be interesting. I wonder what his affinities are. Stein flipped to a new page before she said anything “Just out of curiosity, are you a scientist as well? You also seem to have a small notebook of observations” Stein said pointing at Mockingbirds little book “I’m very curious, may I see your notes on me? …Don’t tell me you don’t have any notes on me, any person whose been taking notes like that and analyzing people must have made notes on someone as unusual as me.” Stein said smiling.
Stein turned slightly to talk to Horo as well and continued writing in her notebook. “hehe, class president as training to rule the world…I will definitely support you in your goal to be class president. I don’t think class presidency will give you good training to rule the world though. Have you read any of the books by Karl Marx, or Niccolo Machiavelli? They both wrote books and pamphlets on how to rule…efficiently.” Stein grinned a little wider at her comment before continuing “Your tail and ears are just fascinating and amazing. May I touch them?” Stein asked as she reached out towards Horo’s ears.
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Post by Horo on Jan 2, 2013 22:17:34 GMT -5
Horo: To Shiro: "I have an ability called pulse that allows me to transform. It's the same power Professor Giovanni has. He's just much better then I" To Mockingbird: "You have just wittnessed the full extent of my power." To Stein: "I can't read. Do they have an audio version? Thank you for the support. No you can not touch my ears or tail"
Giovanni: "Ok class, this time... Make me a line that crosses the Y axis of a graph at point (0,15) and the X axis at (30,0)"
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Post by Rikka on Jan 24, 2013 22:41:44 GMT -5
Shiro's eyes grew wide as she explained it. That was so cool!! he jumped exitedly as he ran back to Ash to report his finding about the girl with ears. In his excitement he switched between common and their own native tongue. Ash squatted down as she met Shiro's eye level. Nodding at his finding she rubbed his head while Rue got her head rubbed by Mockingbird. Rue let out a sort of choppy purr before prancing around his feet. She liked this new person. He was nice.
As the teacher assigned the problem Ash stood up after placing Mizu by Snow. Quickly she worked out the equations in her head before looking to her group members. Ash wondered if he wanted the standard form or the slope form. "So how shall we proceed? Should we give him the Slope form or the Standard form and who does not know how to solve this problem?"
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Post by mockingbird on Jan 29, 2013 15:24:52 GMT -5
As he glanced down toward Damu, Mockingbird smiled before he replied, as he stopped scratching Rue’s head “ Why, these rings were gift and I rather enjoy them. What do you mean ‘do they work like Stein’s screw’?” With that he moved his gaze to the white haired girl, “ And how do you know about my knives?” he said, barely audible to those in his group. So strange isn’t it? So she can sense my knives, wonder what else? With a smirk, Mockingbird carefully moved closer to Stein “ No I’m not a scientist, I like to make observations that’s all.” Let’s try something with this one. With another innocent smile, he said “ I’ll make you a deal. i.. I really don’t know a lot about people here but everyone seems to be more.. more gifted?” this should help as he looked around more he felt his appearance change from the calmness to slightly panicked. “ Can you help me understand more about people here? Perhaps help me by showing me your book as well?” As he wrote down the last detail about Horo’s power, he held the notebook close to his body so Stein wouldn’t be able to take it. When Giovanni spoke again, Mockingbird sighed, regained his calm composure, and said “Well, guess not right now. We have to do another problem. How can we do this one?” hmm… let’s see 15/30 is .5 or 1/2 . The slope of the line is 1/2 and it starts at 15? I think this is correct. Let’s see what they do though. “ What should we do to solve the problem? I have part of an idea but I’d rather hear what you all have to say.” Said Mockingbird to his group, once more starting to rub Rue’s head.
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Post by Stein on Jan 31, 2013 16:23:44 GMT -5
Stein picked up Damu and put him in her pocket “He smells funny, like blood, but not normal blood…what species is he?” Damu whispered to Stein before crawling out of her pocket again and running over to sit next to Rue. Stein smiled as Damu crawled out of her pocket, she replied to him “I don’t know what species he is. And Damu, you can’t just say everyone smells like blood, you said that Bridgit girl also smelt of blood.” not normal blood smell…interesting. I trust Damu’s nose, if he says it’s ‘funny’ then Mockingbird must be either a new species, or have something different about his blood…probably the latter
Stein was watching Mockingbirds interactions with Damu and noticed that Mockingbird tensed up at the mention of his knives. When she noticed that Damu was going to ask about the knives again she called Damu, and said something to him in his natural language that caused him stop mid-sentence. As Damu sat next to Rue he said “Stein-Oh ok…..Can you scratch my head too? Pleeease?” He asked Mockingbird, scotching closer to Mockingbird’s feet.
After stopping Damu from speaking more about Mockingbird, Stein walked over and kneeled across from Mockingbird and continued talking to Mockingbird “we can discuss viewing the entire notebooks at a later date, I’m currently just interested in your pages on me.” I want to see his entire notebook, but there’s a trick to this…he gave in too willingly, he’s planning something. When Mockingbird spoke up and asked what the group’s answer was she pulled out graph paper and sketched the graph with the correct X and Y intercepts and handed it to him. “There’s the answer. Is there anything else we need?”
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Post by Horo on Feb 9, 2013 21:20:54 GMT -5
Horo looked at the students around her who obviously knew how to do the problem. She scratched her head and sighed. "I don't understand it." Her tan hands brushed her hair to the side as she shifted her weight from one hip to the other. "So we are going with the answer of a slope of 1/2..." Horo replayed the answering of the last problem in her head, trying to graph the points in her mind she saw that the final number laid across the Y-axis. "Ok, so y = (-1/2)x + 15... right? How did we find the (-1/2), Ash?" Horo looked over at Giovanni who wasn't teaching the class, but delighting in playing games with them.
Giovanni flipped around in the air, bored. "Come on students... You guys are smart and can figure it out can't you?" He dropped down onto the soft grass and walked around the various groups checking their answers.
"No, you see, the line on the graph is decreasing as it travels to the right so the slope is negative." "No, no, no the b in y=mx+b is the y intercept, not the x, so you put 15 there."
Giovanni walked around to Horo's group and looked over their shoulders. "Oh, right answer! You guys win. Since you understand this stuff you can leave class early. Bye bye!" Using his pulse abilities he flung the group of students away from the class. Horo landed gracefully on her feet and looked back towards the class.
"So... can someone explain it too me; How did we find the slope?"
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Post by Rikka on Feb 9, 2013 23:38:29 GMT -5
Rue jumped up and down waiting for him to rub her head again. She looked at Damu and grinned triumphantly when Mockingbird started to rub her head again. She loved to compete in all things and it made her and Shiro the ones most likely to get into trouble. Ash turned to Horo as the young girl ended up confused. "I'll help you understand. To find the slope your going to use Y2-Y1 over X2-X1." Before she could get any farther though Giovanni came over and checked their math. Moments later he declared them the winners and flung them away with his pulse. Flipping she barely landed on her feet before she was moving. Her figure a blur she dove and caught Mizu and Rue. Snow had landed on his feet by himself. Realizing Shiro wasn't with them her eyes searched until she found him flying toward Stein. Standing she set Rue on the ground gently and left Mizu in Snow's care again. She trusted Stein's reflexes despite her scaring Mizu half the time. Brushing grass off her shirt she looked over at Horo. "Alright as I was saying. Your going to subtract Y2 from Y1 which is 0 minus 15 which gives you negative 15."
She paused for a moment then wrote in the air with ice to illustrate her point. It took a bit of concentration. "Y is going to be over the X. Now that you have your Y you going to get the X. X2-X1 or 30 minus 0. After you are left with negative 15 over 30 which can be reduced or simplified to negative one over two. This gives you your slope." The whole time she talked she had written in ice in the air to show Horo what she was talking about. Slowly it was already starting to melt because of her lack of control. Ash new she needed to practice a bit.
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Post by mockingbird on Feb 13, 2013 20:05:09 GMT -5
Seeing Damu begin to move closer to him, Mockingbird glanced toward Stein, “ Is it ok to scratch Damu? I wouldn’t want to harm those stiches.” so strange about her isn’t it? She’s analyzing everything I bet. As he reached out and took the paper Stein had handed to him, he held onto as Horo seemed a bit more confused. She seems so.. I don’t know? Unique?
Hearing Giovanni talk again, Mockingbird smirked once more does he even notice us working on this?, “ So this is correct right? “ he asked in a gentle toned voice, feeling someone begin to look over his shoulder at the paper. Hearing Giovanni say they could leave early, he felt himself begin to be knocked away. Seriously? The first day here and this has to happen? When he landed, skidding a little way on his back, protecting his head with his arms, Mockingbird got up then looked around quickly. wait, where is Rue? She was by me a second ago! Glancing at his arms, he made sure there were no cuts, then glanced around once more for Rue, seeing Ash placing Rue on the ground he walked over, beginning to scratch Rue’s head once more.
After Ash had finished showing Horo how to do the problem, Mockingbird looked up and said, ” hey Ash, How old are your chimera’s? and where may I get one, I like little Rue and the rest seem really kind as well.”
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Post by Stein on Feb 13, 2013 23:09:49 GMT -5
“You can scratch Damu’s head and back as much as you’d like, his only recent scar is on his chest.” Stein replied as she watched the teacher preforming aerial flips. Yeah! See, it’s only 2 weeks old.” Damu said as he rolled over onto his back, proud of his most recent scar. Stein rolled her eyes at him “Just be careful Damu, you don’t want to pop any of the stitches.” When Giovanni used his pulse and pushed them out of class Stein flipped in the air but landed easily on her feet; catching Damu as he flew into her chest. She noticed that Shiro was also flying towards her, but his trajectory would have sent him flying over her head; she dropped Damu into her lab coat pocket and jumped up and caught him as he flew over her head. She fell backwards and landed on her back. “You both ok?” she asked as she stood up and examined Shiro, making sure he wasn’t hurt. Stein set Shiro on the ground and watched as he ran to Ash; she followed him over to the small gathering. Writing in her notebook that Ash could control ice as she joined them she looked down to see blood staining one of her lab coat pockets; it was the pocket Damu was in. She closed her notebook and put it back in her other pocket and, reaching into her pocket pulled out Damu, whose belly was stained with red. Stein pulled her hover-disc out of her bag, and set it to hover about 41 inches from the ground. She set Damu on it on his back and said “Hold still for a minute, you’ve popped 5 stitches, let me fix them really quickly…. you want me to numb it, or just fix the stitches and be done?” She pulled a small case out of her bag and set it on the board. She opened the case to reveal it had everything needed for stitches in it: needles and thread, cleaning wipes antiseptics, tweezers, small scissors, bandages and 5 different scalpels. “Nah, just stitch me up and I’ll be good to go!” he replied with a grin. Stein smiled and set to work, she was done fixing and bandaging the stitches in 3 minutes. “There you go Damu, tell me if you need anything to help with pain.” Stein said as she walked around the board and set him back on the ground near Mockingbird. “And Damu, please be careful, try not to tear anymore of the stitches.” Stein stood up again and accidently bumped the case, sending the scalpels, scissors, and needles falling towards the ground, and Mockingbird.
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Post by Horo on Feb 18, 2013 11:14:27 GMT -5
Horo nodded as Ash gave her the explanation. ’That makes sense’ she thought to herself as the ice melted the work away. She squatted down and began to draw a graph in the dirt and started using the technique that Ash had just taught her to find the slopes of many graphs. Her ears flicked with each answer, as if physically cheering for her correct answers, but her face remained stern and determined.
”Alright, I believe I understand this now. Thank you Ash.”
Horo stood up and stomped her graphs out of existence. As her foot fell for the last stomp one of Stein’s needles fell below her foot and impaled it. ”That... hurts...” Tears began to form in Horo’s eyes as her body tensed up. She sniffled a few times before falling onto her butt and pulling the needle out of her foot. Rocking back and forth, Horo rubbed the spot and tricked her body into releasing extra endorphins to deal with the pain.
”Stein! You need to be more careful!”
The tears that had formed were gone from Horo’s face as she took in a few more deep breaths. While Horo’s voice was flat, there was a hint of pain evident in the way her tone rose at the end of her statement.
“It’s just a needle prick,and the needle wasn’t even used; put some disinfectant on it and it should be fine. Here’s the disinfectant, and here’s a small band-aid.” Stein replied, unconcerned, as she handed a band-aid and the bottle of disinfectant to Horo, she was more concerned with how Mockingbird would respond, since most of the needles and scalpels had fallen towards him.
Horo began to focus her energies, grabbing Giovanni’s attention as he felt the shift in the pulse of ground around her. He watched intently, forgetting about the lecture he had been giving to a student. Beads of sweat began to form on Horo’s face as her body temperature rose with the movement of her pulse energies. She directed her focus to her foot and force the impaled injury to heal itself. The entire process took her about one minute but by the end her entire body was drenched with sweat. She smiled and stood up triumphantly, only to feel the wound reopen.
”Damn it.” Horo fell back onto her butt and continued rubbing her foot.
Ash gave a small smile to Horo before rounding up the Chimera's to head off to their next class. Glancing over at Stein she blinked and watched her begin to sew up Damu. Had he hurt himself when he had been flung? Doing a quick head count of the Chimeras she heard something get dumped and looked over to see Stein and accidentally toppled everything from her hoverboard. Guessing the trajectory of the blade she concentrated and created barriers around Damu who had a scalpel falling for his head. When it hit the ground she dropped the barrier and gave a whistle. Rue who had been comfortable in Mockingbird's lap scampered over to the other three Chimera's. It was time to go.
Hearing Horo shout out Ash looked over at Horo and watched her before debating it was just a needle. Feeling a heavy pressure in the air she watched Horo as she attempted to heal her foot. It was apparent to Ash rather quickly that she had only closed the top of the wound but was watching to see how the girl dealt with it. When it popped open again she walked over quickly and crouched down next to her. "That was pretty good for a first try. It will help when your stamina is built up a bit though." Giving the girl a gentle smile like one might a brave child she lightly touched Horo's foot and healed the small wound. Standing up she headed over to her Chimera's and picked up Mizu before heading off toward the classrooms.
Horo blinked as Ash healed her wound. ”I could have done it!” Horo claimed at first before turning her head to the side. ”Thank you.”
As Mockingbird saw a couple of the needles and scalpels fall around him, he protectively wrapped Rue in his arms, feeling one scalpel graze his arm, across his forearm, barely missing his elbow and falling to the ground. willing his blood to crystalize just under the skin, allowing some blood to get past to appear normal to anyone seeing him get cut. After a couple minutes, he slowly crystallized the gaps under his skin where blood still flowed through his gash. Glancing down at Rue, he made sure the little chimera wasn’t harmed then looked up at Stein, swearing under his breath, saying out loud “ Stein. Be more careful! you could have killed someone with those. I mean really look at what your scalpel did to my arm!” Mockingbird after talking to Stein, he followed Ash for a little, once more asking , “ Hey, Ash. Wait up! Is there any way I might be able to get a little chimera like Rue? How old are they?” As he passed Horo, he stopped, leaning down, saying “ are you ok Horo? that looked like it was painful. “ strange. her wounds already healed. She is really unique isn’t she? Examining his arm further, he slowly took away the crystallized blood, using the blood on his arm that was still wet to create a crystallized blood “scab” to make sure the bleeding had stopped. That white haired girl seriously needs to not be such a clumsy idiot. Why did she even have to do that!
Stein continued collecting her tool and putting them away in the case quickly. “I need to be more careful with how close my scalpels are to the edge of the table....i’m going to have to re-disinfect the whole case at this point.” She noticed that there was some blood on one of the scalpels, but not a concerning amount definitely have to disinfect everything She notice that Mockingbird had a good sized gash on his arm. I should probably fix that...otherwise he’ll get an infection... She quickly walked over and grabbed Mockingbird’s arm on either side of his elbow around the wound to bring him back so that she could put the stitches in. then she noticed that it’d scabbed over on it’s own, and unnaturally quickly. “Interesting” She said as she pulled a small sterilized hypodermic needle from her pocket and drew a vial of blood, which she put in her pocket and began preparing to draw a second vial “This could be the beginning of a fascinating study. Mockingbird, would you care to explain how your blood crystallized so finely, and at such an unnatural speed?
Horo smiled I’ll survive, thank you though.” She stood back up and took a few steps away from Stein as she began using Mockingbird as a test subject. Horo’s head turned to the side as she wondered if people in this society just did things like that.
Feeling the first needle go into his arm, Mockingbird looked down, noticed the vial, and clogged the needle point, looking more annoyed. ”Stein. I WILL LIVE ! Let go of my arm. I am not a puppet or test experiment for your enjoyment. And that’s really none of your business how this works. Maybe if you’d learn to ask,” he said, emphasizing the word ask , “then maybe people would cooperate more with you.” Pulling his arm quickly away, Mockingbird began to storm away, feeling the air around him heat up as his anger grew. “ Just get away. Maybe i’ll explain it to you if you don’t try to USE ME AS A TEST SUBJECT.” what is wrong with that girl?
Horo blinked at the two rationalizing that people in this society didn’t commonly do things like that. She was thankful though that it had been Mockingbird and not herself at the other end of the vile. ”Well, it looks like everyone is leaving...” Horo looked over at Stein and her little chimera. ”I guess we should be off too then.... I have detention anyway.” Horo dropped her head in shame and drug her feet through the grass. She doubted that woman was going to let her off easy.
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