The bus restarted with a chug, and the driver, cursing at the idiotic students who wouldn't stop using their powers, rolled toward the edge of the school again, determined not to stop until they were back on the ground.

Ben, who'd been completely oblivious to everything that had been happening (well, except for the part where Julianna had stopped the bus and Clair had put a dent in the hood), stared out of the window with a supremely bored expression. The morning had been fairly exciting, but the afternoon was just getting boring. He sighed, wishing he was home in front of his TV playing Zelda...

Shika sat in her empty room, crunching on a light salad. So much for a new school year, she thought dryly, seeing as she hadn't had a single student enter her class so far this year. Well, she reasoned silently with herself, someone would eventually fall behind or become too advanced for normal classes, in which case she'd delightedly take them... that is, if she understood their power.
Shika continued eating her salad and thinking about how the remaining schoolyear would turn out...

((*HUGS Palmoun* Sorry! My fiancee's grandmother is in the hospital again so I was kinda distracted....))

Zero pouted and watched Clair go again. She sighed. Then she looked to Ivan.

"I'm not depressing!" She said as she made a bunch of lime green elephants appear around the bus. They were dressed up as pink chickens and all singing and dancing the chicken dance.

"I'm just a bit dangerous thats all..... OOOH! A butterfly!"

A butterfly flew by and the elephants disappeared. Soon Zero was covering random people in colorful butterflies and they were lifting up off the ground and flying. There was a lot of screaming.

ray looked out the window and looked out at the clouds, he was bored and didn't wnat to be. so he turned slightly in his seat stretched his hand out into the alley and sent a bolt of lightning along the grond endding at juliana's feet. then he quickly fired three more bolts around the bus and turned around as quickly as he fired the bolts.

chris opened his eyes and saw the random kid who sat down at his lunch table firing off bolts of electricity around the bus and shook his head. then he stared out the window looking down at the passing ground.

((I'm so sorry I haven't been properly posting lately...I'll try to get past my block and back on track in this RP...>___<;;;))

The butterflies that landed on Damien all made hissing sounds and soon crumbled onto the ground, black and charred. Damien hadn't noticed what he was doing and blinked at the sight. He quickly withdrew the poison back into his body to prevent further damage. The random girl was dangerous, judging by how everything she thought of all turned into reality, it would not be wise to upset her.

Turning his attention back to Julianna, he remembered what they were talking about. "Well, true. But it is still an disadvantage if people knew your appearance. Some people would come looking for trouble. If you were wearing a mask, however distinct it may be, it is still not your own face, and therefore more safe. If anyone wants to come after you, they wouldn't be able to know how exactly you look like once you take the mask off and pretend to not be the person they're looking for." Taking a breath, he continued, "And that's a pretty neat power you have there. So you're some kind of technoid, being able to fix machines and all that?"

Julianna stared as the butterflies began to cover her, attempting to lift her from her seat, but their efforts were futile, especially as, in an unconcious panic, Julianna formed up an extremely short-range Negative field. The butterflies practically vanished into a glittery mess that rained on Julianna for a little while before dissappearing entirely.

She did have a moment to stare at some of the glitter-like remains obviously quite enthralled at it, though looked at Damien again, his reasoning made sense, indeed there was such a risk but then she wasn't aware of his kind of history, so she could not presume to instruct him further on the matter, atleast he held logic in his methods and that alone was satisfying enough, for which she found herself quite satisfied in her choice of seating,
"Would you be offended if I continued to take this place?" Jullianna asked, pointing down at the seat, though what she really meant to ask was if he would be offended should she choose to stay at his side whenever the bus trips occurred. She caught on to her fault and looked aside for a moment then looked at him again,
"I must rephrase, would you find offense should I choose to continue sitting by you?"

Her responce to Damien's question of her ability came almost immediately after his pending responce, "You are somewhat correct. They told me the ability is Advanced Technopathy. Thereforce I am highly technologically prone and am gifted with what can only be referred to as advanced preknowledge of all things technological aswell as analytical skills verging on biotechnological advancement." Julianna needed an example and so stared at him again, pointing at her own eye so he could take better notice of it as the rings independantly shifted and focused, "Like this. According to my visual calculations of your movements, the effect you had on the butterflies, and your reactions to myself and your changing environment, you give off poisonous substances, but you are also hiding a further ability that I cannot percieve as of yet."

She moved back again and looked again, rifling off the information almost robotically in a sense,
"In spite of my capabilities, however, they were also correct to assume that I am lacking in most other knowledge and so I am here to learn, though I could learn from the internet, they say that one learns better by doing rather than simply knowing because the body must also learn and it does not always learn as quickly as the mind."

"Well, you sure have a lot to learn in other fields..." Damien muttered darkly under his breath. While she wasn't annoying, her words are rather...big, for someone like him. Despite that he'd never admit that even if he was thrown into a pit full of spiders. And talking to someone who kept on using 'big' words like that hurt his head.

"Nah, I don't mind. Sit here all you want." He shrugged, using his normal voice volume and grinning slightly, "That's a pretty neat power to have, though it looks like you also have another ability I don't know of yet. I don't mind if you don't tell me though, since I definitely am not going to tell you mine." He shrugged again, "We all need an extra trick or two up our sleeve, because you never know when you might run into a situation where they will come in handy one day against possible...obstacles."

When Damien confirmed that she was allowed to stay, internally Julianna felt an odd swell, she supposed that was what could be caled happiness, an automatic function that followed an event that was percieved as good, it was only after they'd both finished that she finally came out with her thanks,
"Thank you for allowing me to seat by you." Julianna responded, a vague smile on her lips again, "It is good to be accepted, if perhaps not entirely welcomed." She added, looking over at him again, she could indeed tell with his darker tones that he wasn't entirely thrilled about her being there, but since he was willing to accept her sitting by him she was satisfied enough with that. Perhaps this 'social integration' thing wasn't so hard afterall,
"Is there something of my behaviour I should modify to allow you a more comfortable disposition around me?" She offered, more acceptance could always work, it also eliminated the threat of him being a possible danger, perhaps.

As the bus finally made its leap into the sky, Julianna barely moved, the spontaneous thrust of the bus didnt hold much sway on her, though she'd sat back to allow the odd harness come down and protect her from being thrown out of place. She looked past Damien with some interest at the clouds just as they passed under it, mouth opening in slight awe as the view of a city below became apparent,
"My first day away from home has been interesting. I have seen many things. But there is so much more I want to see and know."

Thorn tried her best to fasten herself to the roof as the buss lifted off. Somehow, just somehow she survived liftoff. Dang bus closing before.... Hey, this is pretty cool. She thought. She didn't usually show outward signs of emotion, but she got herself to stand up and get into a surfing stance. wow...

chris almost fell asleep when the engines roared and the bus took off. he was awake now and was looking out the window at the passing clouds. he sat there wondering why they are so puffy.

ray sat quietly(for once in his life) on the bus. he didnt really like flying that much so he pretended he was on a roller coaster. he looked out the window and saw a flock of birds flying by and a mischevious thought popped into his head. he sent several jolts of lightning in front of there path statling them as they broke formation and scattered. ray started laughing he new it was wrong but he was bored.

Damn the straps again. Damn them and the stupid flying bus. Would it kill the school to have it located somewhere normal, like on the ground? It would save them so much trouble and a lot of fuel. Didn't the news say that fuel was becoming increasingly rare and expensive? Damien scowled at the seatbelts but grudgingly ignored them as he turned his attention back to Julianna.

"Yeah. Stop talking like a robot helps. You're talking like you're some kind of machine, and that either makes people think you're weird or just plain cuckoo." It was like talking to a person who was a combination of a robot, a stern company CEO, and a polite maid. The bizarre combination was making him feel uncomfortable.

"Like a robot...?" Julianna seemed confused, but seemed to begin processing it, taking it into consideration as she thought it over, ever sense meeting her he had indeed been uncomfortable, perhaps she was talking like a robot as he said, but how could she define that? Was the way she acted really like that? Though it seemed more like her speaking manner affected him.
She ran her memory through of the day, remembering the conversations that had occurred around her, peoples manner of speaking, formal greetings between those who brought her here and the way chidlren spoke.

There was alot of noise, things were indiscernable, but then she began picking out things that sounded more like Damien. Meshing it in with other things she'd heard or learned, she looked aside to Damien and smiled a little once more,
"I'll try not to disapp-.. I mean.. I'll try not to get it wrong.. Too often.." She replied finally, looking out at the slowly rising ground, though in fact it was simply them falling closer to it, matters of perspective were an interesting thing to dabble in.
"We'll be home soon as I understand it.. I'll get to see my new home too." Julianna stated, looking from Damien and ahead of herself again, it was certainly a new prospect to her, she'd never known a home outside the labs, but now she had a home in a neighbourhood, it had been strategically chosen apparently to give her maximum reach of all classmates for interaction purposes. Logical enough.
"Damien..?" She looked over at him again, a quesiton incoming, probbaly the most random and forward one could imagine, but she still asked anyway, no embaressment in her face, just curiosuity,
"What is a.. Date? I have heard others speaking of it.. I had assumed they meant the kind of thing that can be eaten, or a date in time. But to be honest I do not think it is something I am aware of.."

The bus touched down on the dead-end cliff with a heavy jolt that made Ben grateful for the seatbelts. Then the bus stopped almost immediately after at Ben's bus stop. He blinked for a moment, then shakily undid the seatbelts.
He stumbled off the bus, the doors of which immediately closed, and the bus swreved back onto the raod to drop off the next student. After watching the bus for a moment, Ben reached up behind his head and stretched hugely.
That, he thought dryly, was a WEIRD day...

(Can everyone limit their next posts to two or three, so that we can start the next day? Thanks ^^)

when the bus next stopped chris stood up and exited the bus. he got off a bit earlier than his actual stop so that he could walk around before actually heading home and pondered about what had happened that day.

ray exited at the stop after chris had gotten off and ran home. he really didnt care about what had gone on that day but he was excitedly thinking about what might happen tomorrow.

((sorry that I have been gone, I went camping))

Ivan laughed when he saw all the butterflys. "yeah I can see that" he said with a smile then saw his stop coiming up and sighed "well It looks like I have to go, I will see you tomorrow" He said as he slid from the roof and landed on the ground and waved goodbye to zero with a huge smile on his face. He wanted to tell his mom eveything that has happend since she would want to know. He could harldy wait for the next day of school.

Clair made her way into the school and wonder it like a lost soul. Which she was or at least she hoped she had a soul. She didn't know where she was going to sleep or anything. She soon found herself siting down next to a teachers room. She had pulled her knees to her chest and had her arms wrapped around them. The teachers inside the room was eating a salad and looked like she was having a good time. Clair just placed her her forhead on her knees and let a few tears escape her eyes. Her life was horrible and it didn't look like it was going to get any better.

Zero grinned and waved byebye Ivan!

Zero's stop was next. She jumped off the bus and made her way to her apartment. Only a few more hours and it would be nightfall. Then the REAL fun would begin....

Zero sunshiny happy personality darkened considerably. Oh how she loved her night job....

Soon the bus stopped at her hill. She climbed off the top of the roof and shakily walked up to her grandmother's house.

chris got home and completyely ignored his parents. he went up to his room plugged in his music and played it really loud and lied there on his bed for most of the night

when ray got home his parents werent. so he watched tv till they did get home. he told them all about what happened at school but they didnt seem all that interested. so he finished talking and went to his room and played videogames all night.

As usual, Thorn was fussed over by her grandmother when she got home. The usual questions, did you use your powers, if you did, what for, Do you need to rest? Thorn shrugged her off and went to her room where she lay down.

Clair then whiped her tears away and wonder the school looking for stuff that she could use to made a bed for her. After about two hours she had found four blankets, two pillows and a big cusion. She made a bed out of them in a broom closet that wasn't being used and curled up on the bed after she made it.

((why not just use the bed in the nurses office????))

((she dosen't trust the nurse or the nurses office))

[Er.. I have a better question.. Why the hell is she being left alone in the school? there would obviously be people there, and she sure as heck wouldn't be left unsupervised, its seeming a bit unrealistic, even a bit too far over the top : / what happened to being with Principle Powers or whatever? What about dinner? This really isn't making any sense.. xD]

((there are still people there but she isn't in the mood to be around them. She isn't staying iwth principle powers anymore because they now know what her powers are and they are afraid that if she goes back home she might kill someone like the principle like she did with the other person she tryed to stay with. But she isin't in the mood to eat at the moment but she will be and she is going to go and sneak off soon to go and wonder around town))

[Uh.. Around town? she's on a giant floating school, I'd love to see how she gets down. It's getting more unviable by the second.. xD I'm pretty sure some-one there wouldnt be stupid enough to be scared out of their wits, Principle Powers wouldnt be, as far as my knowledge of her character goes. If Principle Powers were afraid of a persons powers she wouldnt be runnign a school for children with super and probably unstable abilities such as Clair's. Come on, you've got to see that its starting to get a bit unreal xP]

Edit: [Would you like me NPC Powers? Its mostly a bit concerning because I DO feel sorry for Clair and you're not making it any better! xD My inner soft spot is being stabbed at with a razor sharp knife labelled "HELP HER ALREADY FOR MUFFINS SAKE!"]

((yeah i see now but the principle isn't afriad that she will get hurt she is afraid that other people will. But I do have a way to get her off of the school if I really want to or she will just destroy part of the school and the teachers will have to pin her down))