Lost and confused

[hazard/blackbird]

Brittany Voight stood at the cusp of her destiny, the wind blowing at her long black hair, sending a chill through her pale, thin frame.

"This is it," she said, lifting her left leg. "This is the first step..."

"It sure is!" Another voice spoke from above. "Name's Harley, but you can call me Hazard." She moved lower, decending the marble staircase. "You knew here? Me too." She was very attractive, with curly brown hair and a killer pair of shades. She walked with an aire of confidence and angst and her leather lacket conveyed a "don't mess with me" attitude. Brittany tired to hide her jealousy.

"Yeah, I'm new. I mean, I just heard about this place...and I had no where else to go..." She trailed off, pushing her dark hair out of her face. "I'm Blackbird."

"'Nother codename, dude we really are lame." She laughed a little and walked down the stairs until she was level with Blackbird. "I got no where else to go, since the accident...I mean, it's not so much that I was forced to come here, so much as I don't trust myself around everyday people." She pushed her shades up a little on her eyes. "Let's just say I'm dangerous."

Brittany couldn't help it; she smiled. Being around other people...people like her, felt better than she had originally anticipated.

"So, if you don't mind me asking...what's your...you know, superhuman mojo?" Harley flipped some hair behind her shoulder and smiled, leaning her hips against the marble.

Brittany was a little taken aback. "I guess...here watch," Brittany wasn't sure how to explain it, but she could at least show the girl. She raised her hand and across the foyer a black orbed blinked to life, surrounding a vase. Brittany flicked her wrist and the orb carried the vase across the room, towards them. It took all her strength to stop it from crashing into the wall. Instead, it fell with a thud to the carpetted floor.

"Ray-I mean a friend, once told me it was a form of telekinesis. But...like I know what that means," she said, esposing a little more of her self than she would have liked.

"Are you kidding?" Harley marveled. "That's freakin' wicked!" She looked sincerely interested and so Brittany smiled back, her hair still slightly obscuring her face. "I'm not really sure what my power is either," she started, removing a pair of leather gloves, "all I know is that it's pretty dangerous, a hazard really, and that it can melt through anything." She raised her hands and aimed at the open door. "No one's out there right?" She took a quick glance and then nodded her head. "Okay, here goes...fire in the hole!" She yelled and a large fiery burst of plasma-like ooze shot from her fist and streaked through the doorway. Blackbird followed Harley to the door and admired the small hold the plasma charge had made in the front lawn. "If I try hard enough I can turn into that stuff...although I don't really know what it is."

"That's incredible!" Blackbird said, although it came out as a whisper.

"Thanks. But enough power-play, let's head on inside and find whoever runs this place."

"Okay..." Blackbird turned and followed Harley. She shrugged. There were worst destinies out there.

[Jasmine]

There was a loud band and A man came running down the stairs laughing hysterically, looking behind his he didn't notice the ball of solid light right in front of him. It hit him full in the knees and he flipped over. He landed flat on his back and groanded.

There was a pop and a cloud of purple smoke. A girl came rushing donw the stairs her face furious. "Grant, you get you rbutt back upstair and make that fire disappear."

[Vaughn/Dreaven/Gryphon/Ryle/FF]

The door to the academy opened, as the long-lost Elementalist entered, looking around. "Well.. it still seems to be standing..." the elementalist said, looking around the lobby. It seemed noone else was there, but he heard noises coming from the stairs. Probably some of the old students there... then again, he had been gone for a while, so there would probably have been a new student or two there. As he reached the stairs, he sighed, and shook his head. "No running on the stairs.. the last thing this academy needs is for someone to fall and break their neck..." He looked at the students, shaking his head. He'd been away a bit too long..

[Jasmine]

Wincing Feuer stood up and glared at the man. "Who the hell do you think you are telling me what to do?" He had just fallen down a flight of stairs and to add insult to injury some random person tried to tell him what to do. Without him realizing a flame had jumped up on his hand buring brightly

[Vaughn/Dreaven/Gryphon/Ryle/FF]

Vaughn smirked, and shook his head. "Well, you could say I'm your superior. I've just been gone a while..." The man said, and merely shrugged, looking at the fire. "I'd suggest putting out your little fire, Jasmine would be awefully mad at you for burning down the academy." He walked over towards the staircase, jumping over Feuer. "The name's Vaughn, by the way.. Vaughn Kere." Looking at the others, he said "I'll show you to your rooms.... I assume you already have one, sir." It seemed he was being mysterious as to who he was, guessing that if they didn't already know who he was, they soon would know.

[Jasmine]

The little color in Jade's face disappeared in an instant. She exchanged glances with Feuer. Vaughn? how could he be back? Disappearing in a puff of smoke she reapeared next to Feuer. "Grant, we have to tell Jasmine." she glanced apprehensively at Vaughn, grabbed Feuer arm and the two of them disappeared.

*continued in An Unexpected Return

[Vaughn/Dreaven/Gryphon/Ryle/FF]

Vaughn tilted his head, and shrugged, as the two dissappeared, guessing that Jasmine had also been awaiting his return. He was long over due for a lecture and any other type of conversing. Popping his neck, he looked back to the other two. "It seems I'll have to show you around some other time. I have business to attend to." he said, melding into the floor, and vanishing.