RPG Kakashki Academy

[Squall]

OOC: Sorry 'bout that.

They came out casually and walked down the hall. James grinned at them as they came out. "Allright. Let's split." They all walked casually down the hall. The halls were void of students, since they were all called on room lockdown (where nobody can leave their room, luckily Charlotte rigged their room sensors to detect vital activity) They creeped their way down the hall, making sure any teachers were carefully avoided. They finally got to a safe place to talk (which happened to be the janitors old supply closet, which he rarely came into since his supplies were raided weeks before). "Alright, we maneged to snag theese." Mira said, holding up the blueprints. The graphed picture was a large sphere, with many long straight poles out of one side. On the ends of the poles were smaller spheres. (something like O--o accept with more small spheres) "What in the world is this?" James proclaimed as Zeig snatched them out of his hands. "You moron it's a...ah...erm..." Charlotte took a look. "The structure almost looks familliar, but it must have like something I saw like, centuries ago."
"That helps a whole lot. Check this out." Mira pulled out a faxed conversation.

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Mr. X: and those bleeding heart libreals can't do a thing about it!

Misc: Good work. Having the Faylen developed as a black project was pure brilliance. But we still need to keep this secret. If any other superpower finds out...

Mr. X: Knee deep in hell. Also, some of them are progressing too fastly to keep control over.

Misc: I want both eyes on them. Destroy them if they continue progressing at this rate.

Mr. X: Yes sir!
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"Umm... whats a Faylen?"
"I dunno. What's a black project?"
"Not a clue. Well, as much as these help, I think we need a little more."
"Hey! We also got a disk!" It showed up encoded on Charlotte's laptop, in Binary numbers. "Aw geeze! This was fun. I can't decode this, and the computor class computors are two versions lower!"
"Lucky us."

James and Zeig waited at opposite sides of the hall. James looked boared until ateacher walked towards him. "Excuse me."
"No can do miss. Somebody boobytrapped the school alarm to go off when somebody goes through.

[Walnut]

ooc: gah gomen, I've been busy as usual

IC:
There was a distant scream....almost a terrified pitching point before it died away. There was more sounds, in quick succession...raised voices, a chocking sound....then a thump. Then nothing, just a silent echoing sound.

James and Zieg turned and looked at eachother...what was that?

***

Matt snapped his eyes open and tried to clam himself down. The nightmare had indeed returned to him once more...but it had not felt right. He had seen the others involved in the killings...not the ones he had a faint recollection of.

He tried to move but found he could not. He looked up at his arms and saw two large and heavy manicles strapped tightly about his writs. Instantly memories returned of the last time he had been in here...

~backflash~
Another blow struck across Matt's back and he yelled out once again. Tears and blood were flowing freely down his face, he was thankful that no one could see him other than the teachers.

"How many more times?" asked the person with the whip. Mr Toraski's (sp?)voice was cold and hard, "Three more. Then I think he'll have learned his lesson".

The three blows were delivered in quick succession and then allowed to increase. "Why me? What did I do?" he had asked to himself.

~end backflash~

Matt sighed and remembered painfully that they had left him there for three hours. He had been 12 at the time and the scars he was given then still remained on his back. He could already feel them starting to sting.

He heard the ladies voice say, "Call the whole school together, Hecktor has been disposed of. He will be beaten in front of his school friends to make them adhere more to the rules" she walked off, he could hear her heals clicking loudly.

He looked down at the floor...."Oh God's, help me".

ooc: please please don't write Matt's punishment as I've been building up to it for a while. Trust me it's gonna be good.

[Annie]

[color=teal][font=times new roman][b][i]OOC: Spelling correction-Mr. Tokoskai^^.......
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"What was that?"James asked Zieg.

"I don't know, but I hope it wasn't one of the girls,"Zieg and James turned around and started to walk faster down the corridors.
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"Did you hear that?"Mira stopped.

Charlotte opened her door to her quarters,"No, I didn't hear anything."

"Hmm, I guess I am just tired."

"You can lay down for a bit while I access this disk,"Charlotte and Mira walked in, the airlocked door closing behind them.

Charlottes quarters looked like an average military bunk. Metal bed, desk, dark grey and blue accents. Mira plopped herself on the metal spring mattress. Charlotte sat in her rolling chair and turned on her computer.

"Question, how are you going to get into the program without the academy technological security finding out?"Mira was looking over the papers.

The room was dark and chilly, the only warmth and light was the computer screen. The only noise was the mattress straining with Mira's movement and Charlotte's vigirous typing.

"Well..my computer isn't exactly linked up through the academy's system. I programed a shield into my computer that blocks all supervision and scanning from the academy. They don't even know I have one,"Charlotte continued to type in codes.

"Where did you learn all of this?"Mira was confused.

Charlotte slowly looked over at Mira, her face was sad,"Well, you have alot of free time when you don't have friends. The only friend I have is Zieg,"she turned around and continued to type.[/color][/font][/b][/i]

[Walnut]

ooc: thank you, couldn't remember at the time ^_^

IC:
Bogore snapped to attention outside of the office and lightly knocked. The woman opened it cautiously. "The job has been done, Lady Quenurish" he said, smiling as he always did.

"Excellent. It seems quite a shame to lose so willing a puppet but sacrifices will have to be made" Quenurish took a few steps foreward, her heals clicking loudly over the floor.

Bogore coughed lightly, "If the board of Governors learn of this, Quenurish we could end up in a lot of trouble" Bogore, although he was big and dangerous, was not stupid and did often think of possible situations that could arose.

"There will be no trouble with that, my dearest Bogore. The Governor's will not be interested in what a bunch of 'degarrend' trainee soliders think is going on at this instiute. And besides, who in their right mind would ever dream of a blue blood going against their master?" she let out an evil chuckle and stalked off down the corridor.

***

The school bell (ooc: I asume it's a bell) rang loud and clear throughout the hall's, echoing in a haunting manner. "All students are to go to the main hall. This is a requirement and must be met. I repeat all students report to the main hall" said a compturised voice.

[Squall]

James sighed. "what fun do they have planned for us now?" Mira looked to him and shrugged. "If it's the entire school, it can't be too bad. I would be a little more worried if they just called for us."
"Don't jinx it, I enjoy living without an iron lung." James joked, but the others weren't so sure how farfetched that might be. One of the Kooblus stood idely behind, sometimes bragging through the crowd how he was ditching and they were all loosers for going, right up until Mr. Tinerto, the walking steroid case of a gym teacher hauled him up by his collar and dragged him all the way there. They reached the main hall in almost school record time for any assembaly, and waited for a reason for being gathered. James yawned and heard a groan beside him. Mira was pale and sweating. "Mira! What's wrong?! Are you-"
"James, you know those really bad feelings you can't ignore, no matter what? I just got one..."

[Dead Alice]

((Um... Am I in two places at once? *is confused*))

[Walnut]

ooc: alright....here we go

Mr Tokoskai storde out onto the podemium and coughed lightly for silence. It came almost immediately. "Good Afternoon, students. This is rather an unauthodox asembly. Usually we run these to anouce great deeds or top pirority information. But today you are to see exactly what happens to anyone who breaks the rules" he paused here and allowed the silence to drift carefully.

"As some of you may or may not be aware, leaving a comrade injurgered in the battle-field is consisdered to be a way of proving who is the better fighter. Wounds can be healed over time and those who fall behind are to be left behind. The boy who is due to recieve his punishment broke that very rule. He tried to help out a comrade who had simply scratched her arm and was in no immediate danger. So therefore....due to" he paused again and seemed to intently focuse on the four students who had tried to help Matt out before snapping out of it, "....interferences with the continuety of school proceeders. He shall recieve nine lashes with the Nine-tails" his voice was level and mysteriously calm at this point.

Whispers of panic ran through the audience and there was so much tentsion that it could have been cut with a very fine knife.

Matt was dragged out from behind the screen, he was no longer tied to the posts, but his hands were still tightly bound. Mr Tokoskai nodded silently to an unseen figure and slowly the person stepped out.

He or she it was hard to tell was clothed completely in black, and resmembled an executioner of old days. In its hand it carried the fearful nine leather strips that was the 'Nine-tails'. It was a simple concept, instead of delivering one slash it delivered nine but edged into the leather was sharp metal spikes that tore tha the flesh.

The blows were delt with resonably quick succession, with only a few seconds pause between each stroke. At first Matt was able to hold his tongue, but it was possible to see tears of pain flow from his closed eyes. By the fourth stroke he could not hold his tongue and let out short, sharp painful screams that ripped through every member of the crowd.

At the final stroke, the practisioner allowed the straps to stay on Matt's back fro five very long and terrifying seconds before it slowly dragged them across what little of his back remained, allowing the metal to cut deep into his skin. He let out a horrific scream and landed down on the stage face first, tears and blood mixing together to form a blue ink.

Tokoskai smiled, "Let this be a lesson to all of you. Dismissed" he said simply before following the practioner off the stage. The school sat in silence for a few seconds and then almost everyone bolted to the door, leaving Matt where he was....alone and wounded.

ooc: arrrrrrrrr *hugs Matt* I warned you all that it was going to be horrible. How ya gonna deal with this?

[Squall]

((Wait, where were you first? I think we were all in the quarters looking over Charlotte's comp. info, when she said the only friend she has is Zeig, and then theres a cut to Matt, and then we all left for the main hall. Wherever ppl were, I think it's pretty clear that everybody was there when Matt got pretty well torn up straight to heck))

[Dead Alice]

((Right.......))

Mira stared in horror as Matt recieved his punishment. She fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably. "How could they do such a horrible thing?" James put his arm around her shoulder, but couldn't seem to think of anything to say.

[Annie]

[color=teal][font=times new roman][b]Charlotte's face was pale, silent tears flowed down her face, her stomach was nauseous, her sould twisting in agony. She began to shake uncontrolably and her eyes never blinked.

"Matt...."her voice was shaky and barely above a whisper.

Zeig and James growled with furry. Mira fell to the floor in pain, James quickly wrapped his arms around her. Zeig looked at Charlotte, unknowning what he should do.

The auditorium was empty except for the mangled Matt, alone on the stage, crying uncontrolable tears. The four were outside the auditorium.

"Charlotte, what are you doing? If you go in there and get caught, they'll to the same to you!"Zeig called out as Charlotte fell back from the group.

"Take Mira to the infermary! And don't you dare tell me what to do! I just watched a dear friend get slashed nearly to death!"Charlotte's tears were fire to her cold, pale face.

James nodded in understanding, Mira gave a faint smile, her eyes were faded. The two walked off, Mira hanging onto James. Zeig looked hurt at Charlotte.

"Charlotte, he's a dear friend to all of us, but I don't want you to receive the same punishment. You'r like a sister to me, I have known you since before we were crawling. It would kill me to see you lashed,"Zeig took her clamy hand in his, his eyes were full of concern.

"I think of you as my older brother, and I know you'd do anything to protect me. But please, let me live the way I want. I will be fine, I always have,"Charlotte placed her other hand on his face adn spoke softly.

Zeig realized he wouldn't get through to her, her mind was made. He walked a way, telling her to call him later. Charlotte walked back into the auditorium, Matt still lay on the floor in the pool of is blood and tears. She gingerly walked down onto the stage and knelt beside Matt.

"Matt..Matt..It's me, Charlotte,"she tenderly brushed his sweat and blood soaked hair away from his face.

"Char..lotte..you, uh, you shou..ld not be.."he opened his eyes and peered up at her with tearfilled eyes.

"Sssshh, don't worry about me. I am so sorry, I should have done something...."she was cut off by his trembling finger.

"No...you..needn't...do anything.."

"I will take you to the infermary.."she started to lift his arm.

"No..I just..want to lay here..for a little while..longer.."

"Okay, whatever you wish.."she gently rubbed the side of his face with the back of her fingers.

"Char...lotte.."

"Yes, Matt?"

"Stay...please.."his eyes pleaded,"...I don't want t...be..alone.."

"Of course, I will not leave you like this,"Charlotte lay on her side beside him and tore of a piece of her shirt. She began to carefully wipe the blood from his face.[/color][/font][/b]

[Squall]

James could have kicked himself for leaving. Staying was just what the facilty wanted, to see them break the rules. And James let them win, rathered saving his own skin over... "James." Mira snapped him out of his thoughts. "Y-yeah?"
"Why do you think they would do that? I mean, wouldn't they want us to progress and move forward?" She shook her head and wiped the still-streaming tears off her cheek. "I don't know, Mira. It really doesn't make sense..." [i] Don't think about it. [/i] James comanded himself. [i] Don't think about the skin tearing away in the path of all nine of those blades, don't think about his blood curtaling scream ripping through the air. Don't think about Mr. Tokoskai's pleased face. Don't think about Matt's pale expression. Don't think.... [/i] He felt his stomach to backflips, as he wished he was inside a cockpit. Things were so much easier there... [i] At least I don't have anymore classes today. [/i] He thought glumly.

[The (Sic) Shape]

Zieg walked down the halls, his head down, a worried look on his face. He was upset as well but he had a feeling that Charlotte would be alright somehow, as well has Matt. He let out a big sigh.

Zieg: [i]Makes me think about the lashings I had.[/i]

But unlike Matt, he never had the nine tails, it was always just a whip, and it was for always either for hacking into the Academy computers or sticking up for Charlotte and himself. Didnt matter to him, though. He would rather have the punishment then Charlotte. He stopped and let out another sigh.

Zieg: [i]No more classes today. Too bad, nothing to occupy my mind, and I don't feel like mech training...Might as well go to the shooting range. Haven't been there in awhile.[/i]

[Dead Alice]

"James-"
"Huh? Is something wrong?" he stopped walking.
"No, I just... don't want to go to the infirmary," said Mira, wiping her eyes.
"Why?"
"Well, I'm not really physically hurt or anything," said Mira, still slightly shakey. "Besides, I seriously doubt they can do anything. I just need to sit down."
"Okay..." said James, concerned. They sat against the wall, and Mira started fidgeting.
"James, do you remember that dream I told you about?" Mira asked, trying to push the thought of Matt's torture to the very back of her mind.
"I think so..."
"Well, you were in it..." said Mira, looking down at her hands. "And, of course, I was, too... In some sort of forest... It was raining... I saw you, at the other side of the woods... I started running, but I wasn't going anywhere... You just stood... bleeding... I was crying... You were bleeding... everywhere..." Her voice grew faint. She looked at James. Grey eyes stared into green, for the longest time...

[Squall]

James smiled. "Relax. I'm sure it was just a crazy dream." Mira nodded. "Yeah, but still..."

"Don't worry. I won't let anything like that happen, and you know I won't." He smiled at her, and she smiled back. "Okay." She said at last. She cast a worried look back down the hall and struggled to stand up. They walked in silence down the hall. "Hey, I'm gonna get my normal clothes, and then we could head out to do something, okay?"
"Sure." James cracked a grin and Mira nodded. James couldn't help but wonder about what had been happening after she left.
[i] What could that dream have ment? What was that fax about, and what were those blueprints? And what about Matt? What's going on... [/i]

[Walnut]

ooc: *squees* oh my! This is really nice ^_^

IC:

Matt hardly moved as Charlotte gently brushed away the blood and the tears, he felt ashamed of himself for crying but what else could he do? Pain flashed through his body and his mind, he had never meant to do any harm to anyone.....never in his life.

"Matt?" asked Charlotte, her voice filled with worry and pity. He looked up into her eyes and tried vainly to regain himself, "I'm sorry" he said, his voice a mere whisper.

"What about?" she asked, moving his hair aside gently and wiping some more of the blood away from his mouth. Matt looked uneasy and could feel his stomach clenching uncontrollably, he knew he was going to be sick and he was....a mixture of blue blood, flem and something he had eaten.

Charlotte moved away slightly and let him finish before starting to clean him up again, "Hush...you don't need to appologise for being ill" she said, never once changing the tone of her voice.

"It's....not....this...." he looked up at her with fear in his eyes, his body shaking. Slowly he took ahold of her arm, "I....I talked....I may have gotten you all....into....into....trouble.....much....bigger....much bigger... than this" he paused, his breathing becoming restricted, "I...don't...know what....but...please....don't do anything....to break the rules.....other than....this" his eyes closed slowly. It was like he was dead, but he had passed out.

Charlotte sat there frozen for a few seconds before latching onto his arms and gently shaking him, "Matt! Matt! MATT!!!" her voice echoed the empty hall.


***

"So it has begun" said Bogore to himself

ooc: don't ask me what exactly cause I don't know

[Annie]

[color=teal][font=times new roman][b]"Matt!"Charlotte looked up to make sure no one had heard her rather loud whisper.

Matt did not move. Charlotte stood up and bent over to try and pick the limp and bloody body off of the floor. She managed to wrap Matt's arm around her shoulder and began to drag him across the stage.

[i]Beebeep, beebeep..[/i] "Charlotte? Charlotte, where are you?" Zeig's voice came from her jacket's pocket.

Charlotte and Matt were finally off of the stage, she tenderly sat Matt down on the ground and propped him against the wall.

"I am trying to get Matt out of here,"Charlotte flipped open her screen.

"Where do you plan to take him, Charlotte?"Zeig sounded furious,"If you take him to the infermary, they will punish you for helping him! You can not take him to your quarters because there is no way that you will make it there without being caught. You know this, Charlotte,"his voice was now full of concern.

"I can not leave him here!"Charlotte's eyes started to blur with tears.

"......Listen, place him in a safe spot for now. Tonight, I will help you carry him into my quarters. Matt can stay with me until we can figure out what to do with this whole situation,"Zeig's calm face comforted Charlotte.

"But, won't they be looking for him? Damnit, now what? I know they are going to be looking for him and I just signed my punishment papers,"Charlotte leaned against the wall and slid down to sit.

''Charlotte, listen to me. Just do as I say and leave Matt in the auditorium, just for a couple of hours. Meet me in the mech hanger, we will discuss what to do,"the screen went black.

Charlotte squeezed the small computer and looked over at Matt. His face was twisted with pain. Charlotte propped him against her and lifted him up. She made her way behind the thick tapistries into a small dressing room. Charlotte placed Matt onto the couch.

"Matt, I will come back for you in a while. Please, stay alive,"Charlotte felt a hot tear slide off of her cheek and onto Matt's face.

She planted a kiss on his cold cheek and left to meet Zeig in the mech hangers.[/color][/font][/b]

[Dead Alice]

After Mira had changed into her regular clothes (a red shirt and baggy black jeans), she went to find James. She kept trying as hard as she could not to think about Matt, but it was difficult to erase the picture of him from her mind. She hated more than anything to see people being tortured like that, especially if they were her friends. She'd only seen it once before, but that was something she definately didn't want to recall. She unwrapped the bandage around her arm. The cut was almost completely healed, so she figured she wouldn't need the bandage anymore. Besides, it was starting to cut off her circulation.
Mira found James sitting outside under a tree, staring blankly at the sky. She smiled to herself. The wind blew through her black and red hair, which she found extremely annoying, since it kept getting in her face.

[Squall]

James looked to the sky, trying to impicture real mechs fighting in the cosmos. He saw Mira walking up to him and grinned. "Hey. How're ya feeling?"
"Better than before."
"That's good. So...what do you think we should do now?" Mira shrugged and sat down next to him. "I don't know. I was so sure that those papers would give us more of a hint, but I can't make heads or tails."
"Hmm..." He scratched his chin. "It said 'we'll be knee deep in hell,' right? Well, besides you, Matt, and Charlotte, I can't think of anyone I wouldn't like knee deep in hell."
"You forgot Zeig."
"Yep. *grins*"
"That's not very nice!"
"Nope, I guess it isn't."
"You're going to have to drop your petty fight sooner or later, you're in the same boat as him, remember."
"Don't rub it in. But anyways, it said if another superpower fnds out..."
"I think I an guess what you're thinking. We find a superpower and dump a load right in their lap."
"Yep."
"What do we have to drop in there laps?"
"...I was kinda hoping you'd finish my sentence."
"You're hopless."

[Dead Alice]

Mira rolled her eyes and chuckled to herself. Then she remembered something. "Oh yeah! I wanted to show you the pictures I drew..." She pulled out her sketch pad. There was the picture of James, of them together, various doodles of mechs and angels, and a few of Zieg being tortured by James just for the hell of it.

[Walnut]

Matt slowly opened his eyes and looked around the room he was in. His back, sides and face stung painfully and he remembered all to well what had happened to him. He wanted to break free of this mess....end it here and now....but there was nothing that could have been done.

He could not move, nor could he reach anything dangerous or life threatening in this room. He hugged himself tightly, and silently whishing that his mother was here to protect him...then he reminded himself he didn't have a mother....or did he?

A faint recollection of a woman appeared into his mind, but he could not consentrate on her for long and he slowly slipped back into him tortured dreams.

[Dead Alice]

Dammit!!! *is pissed that no one is replying*

[Squall]

Sorry! I've been a little preoccupied.

James took the pictures and circled through them. He laughed when he saw Zeig being tortured. "Don't get any ideas."
"Aw, that's no fun..." He flipped to the one of them together. He grinned at her. "Y'know, these are really good. You should join that one art thingy."
"The art club. Yeah, but the members are all too serious about it, like the only way they could be happy is if they learned to eat and breath the stuff. I like my own way." James streached back and looked up at the sky. "...It bugs me."
"???"
"Have you ever thought about what's up there?"
"Yes. We covered it in Astromany."
"But how do you know for sure? You haven't been there."
"There are a lot of studies on that stuff, with all of the information they have, it would be impossible for it all to be fake."
"But what if it all is? What's really outside of Kakashki? Is the entire world really like this? How come nobody can leave?"
"...I don't know." They remained silent for a while, just staring up at the sky. James sat up after a while. "Know what? We're going to find out for ourselves. When the time comes, we'll take off and never look back."

[Dead Alice]

Mira looked down at her hands. "I wish we could leave this school [I]now[/I]. I'm sick of all these teachers pushing us around."
"They're gonna get what's comin' to 'em," said James. "One of these days."
"I don't know why I'm even here," said Mira. "I can't remember anything before I came here." She held out her finger and a butterfly landed on it.
"You know, that's good luck," said James, smiling. Mira nodded sadly as it flew away.

((erk... I'm in a frilly girly-girl mood today *sweat drop*... Stupid Cardcaptor Sakura manga... -_-))

[Annie]

[color=teal][font=times new roman][b] *whistles* waiting for (sic) shape....*whistles*[/color][/font][/b]

[The (Sic) Shape]

OOC: Sorry, but I've been a little occupied and I did get a chance to post 'til now.
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Zieg patiently waited in the mech hangers, leaning against Siegfried. It was completely quiet, and He hated it, always made him think to much. He snapped from his thoughts as he heard footsteps approaching him. He looked up to see Charlotte walking up to him.

Charlotte: Hey. Sorry if I've been making you wait too long.

Zieg: It's no problem.

Charlotte: So what are we going to do now?

Zieg: For starters, we should help Matt once everything starts to calm down. For now all we can do is wait. I also suggest that we keep our distance from James and Mira for awhile.

Charlotte: What? Why?

Zieg: The staff is getting suspicious. As long as we go on pretending that nothing?s wrong then everything will be fine. Besides, there?s still not a lot of things I know about yet.

Charlotte: Are you talking about what we found? About that fax and the blueprints?

Zieg: Yeah?