OMNOMNOMALY

[quote name='Felix the Cat' timestamp='1299314483' post='705490'] Next to the water (and I'm sure you're allowed to take a bottle to work.) you should also try to drink some warm drinks, especially tea, whereas it doesn't matter which tea, really, but herbs usually are the best. In addition to that you should eat a lot of hot soup, preferably chicken, trust me it works. [/quote] [font="Garamond"]I also find that milk exacerbates it so stay away from dairy if you can because whenever I have tea with milk or just milk or whatever my throat gets ridiculously sore. Eat oranges![/font]

[font="Garamond"]Pfft whatever, even if I don't win (blasphemyyyyyy) the Prose contest again, I should get to keep my shiny thing and it should say first prose master or something :< CMONNNN I WANNA BE SPESHUL[/font]

[font="Garamond"]Not only did I get nominated to go on exchange next year to Korea through my university, BUT I also was given my top choice!! Korea University in Seoul. August cannot come fast enough, and I am on top of the world. C: Life's good.[/font]

[font="Garamond"]here are glasses to go with the "YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH" portion. I just thought it was needed. We all know glasses on glasses is very CSI. [img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1151/dealwithitoo.gif[/img] My Canadian history needs some work....... but its boring so I don't want to relearn it.[/font]

[font="Garamond"]I'm in because I must defend my title![/font]

[font="Garamond"]The next day it was a sunny Saturday morning when the team reunited again in the office. Sandy sat in a chair next to Elena at her computer, a mug of hot chocolate in his hands. Elena sipped from her own cup of coffee as Felix strolled in and pulled his coat off, draping it on the back of his chair. Sekeiri placed his mug of black coffee on his desk and leaned against his desk to give Haruto her full attention as he walked in. "Morning, Boss." she nodded at him. "Good morning, Sekeiri, everyone." He smiled, though it looked oddly strained. "Something wrong, Haruto?" Elena's voice rang out, seeming louder than usual in the emptiness of the office on the weekend. "It's nothing, don't worry. I'll let you know when its time for our next briefing." He barely glanced at her as he made his way into the glass room of his separate office and shut the door behind him. Elena shrugged and patted Sandy on the head as his expression turned to worry. "Okay Sandy, we're gonna check police reports from last night for any mention of suspicious sounding activity." "We can do that?!" His voice nearly cracked in excitement. Sekeiri laughed from her standing spot near Felix. "With a little help from Michael, we definitely can." "It's more of a question of if we should..." Felix's voice, soft but firm, floated over to them as he stayed facing his computer. "Don't be silly. What they don't know, can't put us in jail." Elena grinned as she clicked a desktop icon that opened up an official looking screen of the Tokyo City Police Department. A few typed commands later and she had bypassed the login page and had gone in through a backdoor and was now leisurely browsing through incident reports. "All hail Michael our glorious Hacker." Sekeiri snorted. "No kidding." laughed Elena. "Thank you, thank you. Please hold your applause." Michael gave a little bow as he came out of his own office, heading towards the kitchen. "God ******* DAMNIT." Haruto's voice exploded from his office, despite the closed door. "****. **** **** **** **** ****." Moments later he ripped the door open and rushed out. "Michael! Michael, we have a problem." The team looked puzzled, unsure of what to do. Michael was back out in a moment, standing next to Haruto. "What is it? What's happened?" Panic was rising in his own voice at the sight of Haruto so distraught. Haruto glanced around at them before speaking again. "It's K." Michael was silent for a moment, his face turned pale. "Oh no..." "Who's K?" Sandy not-so-subtly whispered to Elena who could only shake her head in reply. Felix had swivelled his chair around now to face them, his own face unreadable. "She went offline -" Haruto began, "How long ago?" Michael interrupted as he tapped Elena's shoulder, gesturing for her to move so he could borrow her computer. "Less than 2 minutes ago." He answered "But its not like the usual disconnect. Its a blackout. Nothing is traceable, her cellphone has been wiped off the map too." "Oh Christ, this is not good..." Michael's fingers tapped the keyboard quickly, the TCPD quickly replaced by a window of a program neither Elena nor the rest of the team had ever seen before. Sekeiri glared at Haruto as he stood in silence, not explaining to them what was clearly a crisis. "Who the hell is K, Haruto?" her voice was firm and unwavering and above all else, angry. "And what the hell is going on that has got you two so spooked?" "Michael, you stay here. See if you can find anything to reconnect us again. The rest of you - briefing, now." Haruto turned on his heels and headed to the briefing room at a pace never before seen. Elena ushered Sandy towards the room, exchanging worried looks with Sekeiri and Felix. ************************ Their computer screens lit up as Haruto opened up a file for each of them to see. "This is K; Agent Kallie Imotou. She was an American-Japanese agent that we hired soon after the original fall of the Factory. She was the first one to realize that Zaizen was back on the map." A photo of a 30 year old woman with dark cropped short hair and large square-framed glasses, about 30 years old was on their screen. She looked kind but smart. Her info and accomplishments scrolled across their screens next to her picture. It was astonishing the amount of intel she had done for them, most noticeably "She infiltrated Zaizen's new group," Elena breathed out, her eyes widening. "Yes. For the past three years she has sporadically sent us intel when possible, on Zaizen's next move. Though recently with the surge in attacks, awakenings and even reports of the 'curing' of the witch gene, she has contacted us far less. Beyond a tightening in security we are not sure happened but we couldn't exactly go in and retrieve her. But we always were able to locate her before." The screen changed again, showing a list of reports that Kallie had sent back, including dates and times. The most recent was dated the day before, 11:27 PM. "Until now. Approximately half an hour ago, we lost contact with Agent Imotou. No more phone GPS, no more signals from the chip we implanted on her. Nothing. It's a total blackout. Now, read the report from yesterday." Haruto gave them a moment to read and let it sink in. "Is this true?" Felix looked up at Haruto, his face was still a mask of unconcern but his voice betrayed his feelings. "We have no reason to believe it's not. Witches going missing, awakenings ending in so much bloodshed... it makes sense, really. Zaizen has a new laboratory. This time not just to contain witches, but to experiment on them. Sandy's face lost a bit of it's colour, Elena didn't look up from the screen, unable to tear her eyes off the words. "They're not experiments," her voice, soft and low, floated over the room. "What?" Haruto looked at her. "They're being tortured!" She looked up at the group, tears had welled up noticeably in her eyes. "We have to stop this... They are cutting them open. They are cutting people like us open so they can see what about us is different! Activating our awakenings through orchestrated means, provoking us so we can be shot down like animals..." Elena glowered, Sandy was looking down now. "Was she a craft user?" Felix tried to ignore Elena's emotional outburst, trying to keep the group focused. Haruto nodded. "She was a Seed when we hired her, but her powers manifested themselves sometime after she infiltrated Zaizen's group. From what we understand she kept them hidden." Elena was looking even more visibly shaken now, imagining what they all were - that Agent Imotou had been found out and silenced, either for her powers or for her affiliation with New STNJ. Felix shifted in his chair a bit, looking at his team, each more than a little disturbed by the news of what the new Factory was doing. Sekeiri and Elena were strangely silent so Felix stepped up. "So what's our next move?" he leaned back to look at Haruto. "We have to stick to the plan. No more training, everyone. It's surveillance time."[/font]

[font="Garamond"]pretty sure I am getting a cold because I feel like utter death. COOL. Happy Valentines Day.[/font]

[quote name='Shinmaru' timestamp='1297617270' post='704944'] EDIT: How do you know I don't already do the anime reviews naked? ;D [/quote] [font="Garamond"] oh baby[/font] (you would) [quote name='AvalonAngel' timestamp='1297591383' post='704939'] So, we figured that every major forum needs a person to represent them in a pageant-like manner. Miss America, Miss Vancouver, Miss Hooters....etc etc etc. You were the first lady that came to mind. Gome was another good choice, but we (meaning me) decided that you would be the best choice. [/quote] [font="Garamond"]lmao I better start posting in an evening gown, then. I take my representation very seriously =P [/font]

[quote name='AvalonAngel' timestamp='1297552014' post='704934'] See? I told you. Not that bad. [/quote] [font="Garamond"]no, not that bad. I still don't get it, re: 'why' but y'all do what you do.[/font]

[font="Garamond"]`\( 'A')/` okay.[/font]

[quote name='White' timestamp='1297462261' post='704874'] [color="#696969"][font="Tahoma"] Just to throw out some guesses (and these people will have to confirm whether or not I'm right, and if I am explain why you use it) but I believe Boo uses :( a lot, while Dragon Warrior is more of a :o person. I know Kitty used to use :3 aaall the time and I'm pretty sure Anomaly is more of a =) person. My brother uses 8o) all the time which is too big for my liking but it's unique. xD That being said, as a side question, what REGULAR smile face to you all prefer? Between :) =) =] :] :3 =3 8) and any others you can think of, which do you use? I'm more of a :] person as I like how compact it is and the square smile cracks me up, hehe.[/font][/color] [/quote] [font="Garamond"]You're pretty right but I've actually started using C: or c: more. I dunno why but I feel like it more accurately represents happiness because its just such an extreme smile. With people who aren't so emoticon savvy, thats when I would stick with =). :3 is good too for my azn friends haha, they don't ask any questions. And of course xD though I am using that one with less regularity now.[/font]