"Yeah," Jack said into his cell phone. "Just terminate his insurance....Everything...Yes, the entire family....Even the health insurance, yeah....Okay, thanks for your help." He closed his phone and sighed with a sense of sadistic pleasure. Within 24 hours, Scott Banks and his family would find themselves without a house, car, job, or insurance. Admittedly he was being a bit merciful, only attacking his immediate family. Only three months ago, he was unable to squash the most timid student. Now he was tearing families apart, destroying lives without a single remorse. He didn't feel like eating the putrid lunch from this hideous school. Instead he turned his eyes on the roof of the school.

After several minutes of climbing over windows and balconies, he was sitting from the roof, his legs dangling off into space. He gazed around him, feeling the fingers of the sun gently brush his cold face. He reached absentmindedly into his bag and withdrew the book, The Fountainhead. Flipping through the pages, he found where he had left off and began to read. Considering the fact he neither had to work or do any schoolwork, Jack had considerable free time when he wasn't busy destroying lives of people that made his life inconvenient or gaining more power. Time he spend usually reading or drawing, uncharacteristic for a person like him.

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I was cured all right.

Mikaella breathed deeply, trying to calm herself, to let the emotions keep going, but not let anybody see it. I took her a few moments to recover, but when she looked like the happy girl people thought she was. It may be living a lie, but it worked for her, for now. She smiled at Aaron. "I'm sorry. So, where do you usually hang out?" she asked. The seabirds ceased calling.

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Thanks Nurratiel, *Ennostiel*, PD, and Githoniel

Cylie noticed others coming outside. A boy who sat and drew, a girl who sat by the cliff, another boy who went and sat beside the first girl, and lastly, one boy who made Cylie shiver slightly as he climbed to the roof. He's bad news, even just by looking at him.

Due to her shiver a chill breeze had sprung up and clouds started to form on the distant horizen. No, not today. I can't have unusual weather today of all days. New school, new place, I don't need the ridicule of old. She tried to send the clouds away, but all that she could do that wouldn't seem suspicious was warm them so that they would bring rain, not snow. Sometimes it was best to only slightly change nature so as not to be noticed.

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Married Artemis Fowl on July 16, 2007
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The Seemingly Nice But Actually Really Nasty Nazgul
School ate my life. *sigh*

[[can anyone explain briefly what is going on?]]

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The waves that C R A S H E D upon
The R O C K S that you were trying to step along

And in my head I heard them play a S O N G

(Well, Mikaella and Aaron are talking to each other, Cylie changed the weather slightly, Alexx's drawing, and Jack's reading on the roof.)

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I was cured all right.

[[Thanks Caunion!]]

Nathaniel kept staring at the ocean, even after the fish had returned to their homes deep within the ocean. Deciding that the ground was no longer comfortable, he stood up and brushed the grass and dirt from his pants, and some that had gotten on his shirt as well.

Throwing his garbage away in the tin, he moved towards the railing that was supposed to stop people from easily jumping off the cliff, but he had to grin knowing that that was not going to stop the people who truly wanted to jump.

Resting against the cool metal surface, he just stared at the blue green color of the ocean, watching the waves ripple and tiny shadows resting within.

Something was so soothing about just standing there, surrounded by the wind, earth, the sun that beat down upon him like the warmth of a fire, and the water... somehow he felt in this moment that he was in utter control of everything around him, and he simply closed his eyes and let himself be in the moment.

Little did he know that he was creating a small vortex around him of sorts, bits of rock and water began to swirl around him as if controlled by the wind.

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The waves that C R A S H E D upon
The R O C K S that you were trying to step along

And in my head I heard them play a S O N G

Sighing, Cylie stood up from her seat by the tree, and promply dropped her lunch bag. Nate, the boy she had talked to earlier, was standing over by the rail and wind filled with rocks and water was swirling around him. She went over and leaned against the rail so that she was facing him.

He had his eyes closed and seemed to be enjoying himself. Why shouldn't he? Why shouldn't I? Down to the depths with secrecy around this guy.The girl looked around, no one but Nate was nearby to notice if she did anything. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then slowly exhailed. Around her a wind suddenly whipped into life ruffling her skirt and sending her hair flying like streamers in all directions. Smiling broadly, Cylie opened her mouth wide and did something she hadn't done for a long time. She sang.

This song wasn't one that anyone had ever heard. It didn't even have any words, and no one could hear it except the wind, and the sky, and the birds of the air. If any mortal had been able to hear it it would have been a song of pure joy and contentment. After a moment the wind died down to a gentle breeze and the sun shone bright above despite the dark clouds still coming from the distant horizen. But Cylie didn't notice, she was still singing.

(Hope that's ok. I was wondering, maybe the others can hear Cylie sing, but not the normal people. Am I butting into Nate's life too much?)

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Married Artemis Fowl on July 16, 2007
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The Seemingly Nice But Actually Really Nasty Nazgul
School ate my life. *sigh*

[[no no, it's good!!]]

Nathaniel could feel the breeze pick up around him, but he just thought it was a draft, a few drops of what could only be ocean water hit his cheeks, but again he thought this was all just part of nature's course. He had no clue that he was actually doing this, that he was controlling the elements around him... that he had a power so great that not many could overpower him... but he had no faith, and thus his powers were diminished because of this....

Senses went numb and he was about to fall into a meditative state when he felt the breeze pick even more, but that wasn't what stunned him, it was this voice in the air, as pure and clear as... well there were no words to describe it...

Eyes opened wide and what he saw caught his breath, the vision of white from earlier was standing before him, her lips parted and a wondrous sound pouring from those soft petals, white hair whipping around her fiercely and yet gently if that made any sense at all.

He made to look around to see if anyone else could hear this voice, but he couldn't his body wouldn't let him take his eyes away from Cylie.

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The waves that C R A S H E D upon
The R O C K S that you were trying to step along

And in my head I heard them play a S O N G

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Just became a college freshman; be on sparingly

As Jack read enthusiastically about the struggles of Howard Roark, the desires of five individuals began to scream out from the simplistic ones. They weren't lusts, material wants, ambitions, but stronger than anything he had felt here. One desire that was coming from a boy drawing was a desire for the world to understand him. A second boy wanted some faith in himself, not an uncommon desire. A girl wished people could hear her song and much to Jack's surprise, he could hear the whispers of a song in the air. A third boy desired to understand the girl he was talking to. The girl in question, in turn, wanted to deal with her grief, whatever it was.

His eyes stopped racing across the pages as he tried to decipher and analyse them. He recognised the last two but only because they were in his classroom. One of them was the stranger girl who rolled her eyes at him. As he did, he tried to restrain his mind from wandering with the song that came from the second girl.

(I hope I got the desires right. I wasn't exactly quite sure so I tried my best.)

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I was cured all right.

[I think they're real good Caunion. =D]


Aaron looked at Mikaella and offered a smile. "It's ok." He then paused to think and replied to her question, "Well, mostly on the beach, which can almost be called my backyard. My sister and I still live in our parents' house and it's got a beautiful view of the ocean." Closing his eyes, Aaron could perfectly see his home. He continued to answer her question, eyes still closed. "If it's not there, sometimes with my sister. Or I hang out with people from school. But it doesn't mean they're my friends," he added, "I'm just very sociable."

He grinned again and was about to say something when, just suddenly, a melodious voice drifted towards him. Aaron felt calmed and soothed, a feeling of pure bliss erupting over him. Curiously, he opened his eyes and turned towards the sound. Nearby was the boy Nathaniel and a girl he didn't know. The song was coming from her; he looked at her and tried to say something but couldn't with the melodies still ringing in his head.

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VITAM AETERNO; an original creature roleplay

When Mikaella heard the song, she slowly followed Nathaniel's gaze to the girl. She sat for a moment then had an idea. She smiled at Aaron as she stood up. She walked over to the girl and stood by her side. Mikaella closed her eyes, and breathed in deeply. She reached far with her mind. She touched the ocean. Now the ocean wasn't a thing that was dead. It was alive in its own way. Not because of the things living inside of it, but the water itself. Her mind was being pulled along with the waves. She was no longer in her body. She was now one with the waves. It took her one more moment to gather her strength. Then she surged on. The waves crashed upon the beach with renewed strength. She slowly began to understand what abilities the other two had. Nathaniel and, she listened to the girl's song, Cylie. She felt their peace and happiness flow through their meditation. Then she completely submerged in her own. The water level started rising. The waves became bigger. A seagull dove into an oncoming wave, it burst out of the water and spiraled upward, then it flew around calling out in happiness, for what reason, it did not know.

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Thanks Nurratiel, *Ennostiel*, PD, and Githoniel

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Just became a college freshman; be on sparingly

Jack finished analysing the first boy, the one who wanted the world to understand, and already began formulating that plan. He didn't have a name but that could be easily done. With a name, he could do anything. He closed his eyes and concentrated on the boy harder. Through several self-experimentations, Jack couldn't read relationships in people, but with the desires, he could deduce them. With this boy, though, it was hard. He was complicated and as such, so was his desires. Hidden underneath his desire for self-understanding was a desire to stay hidden from the world. Underneath all that were various desires to do good, to become virtuous. His eyebrows frowned as he struggled to understand him. An act not facilitated by the song that was still flowing in the air.

(Tur, if you don't mind, could you have Alexx read what's going through Jack's mind?)

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I was cured all right.

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Just became a college freshman; be on sparingly

A new desire sprang from the boy. He wanted to find him. Jack smiled and got up immediately. Jumping and climbing down, he reached the ground in almost no time. While he could filter through the desires to a specific person, he couldn't track it down to a specific location from a distance. He had to go through the entire school and find that desire. He was on the roof when he felt so whoever that person is, he was outside. He started off slowly and broke into a sprint towards the door.

When he reached outside, Jack closed his eyes to filter through everything, a difficult task he might add. Finally he found him, lying on the grass, a notebook with a drawing nearby. He strode towards him and asked, "So. You've been looking for me?"

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I was cured all right.