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[growing_pains]

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Lee Chaolan-Tekken

[vaudevil]

[Action/Classroom (Music)]

[The writing on the chalk board has six composers with their works scrambled in a cloud below. He translated the same concept in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese for those students that are still learning English.

Wearing mostly one color is easier to camouflage than wearing three of four colors. He is often strange that way. Today, it's white.]

Now class, we are going to play a little matching game. I'm going to ask a student to come up and play a few bars from the first piece that comes to mind from the composers that I have written on the board behind me and the first person that guesses it correctly will choose a student to play next for the game. The one who has the most correct will gain amnesty for this week's quiz with an automatic A.

This is to encourage participation. Even if you get them wrong, don't despair. There's always next week and a little reading never hurts.

That sounds fair, doesn't it? Now, are there any questions before we begin?

[Action/Training (Danger Room)]

[Lee's X-Men suit isn't black like the others. The material on it seems more iridescent and changes with the light than a solid color. He closes his eyes for a moment while he breathed. His hands flex and the color begins to change to a dark blue along with his skin and hair. A slow exhale, his skin and costume take on the texture of concrete along with the color.

This is his warm up. He cycles through the entire spectrum before he returns to normal. Having the ability of a chameleon only much more advanced has its disadvantages. He has to flex once in a while to keep it sharp. Bending light is an interesting feat.

With the students now lining up, he smiles and motions with his hands in a dramatic fashion into a bow.]

Good afternoon. I am your instructor Lee Chaolan, or Mister Lee for those of you that prefer to call me by my first name. Excellent!

Now then, let's play a little game of hide and seek. Each one of us are having to fight random opponents in this place. If you are discovered, you will have to fight to find your ally. Your ally is your classmate. I will be included in this exercise only I will be the enemy. If I find you and I beat you in a fight, you're considered dead and must report to the red circle.

If you find me and beat me, I'm considered dead and the exercise is over. Ready? You have one minute to find your hiding place before I begin the simulation. Go!

Rin Okumura || Blue Exorcist

[devilsfire]

[Network]
[There's quite a bit of static and rustling around at first. Like Rin doesn't really know what he's doing, which is the case. He's completely hopeless when it comes to technology.]

This thing workin' right? People can hear me? [He clears his throat.]

Students of Xavier's this is resident overlord spe-- [Oh he can't even finish. He thinks he's too funny with his introduction. So he's just going to laugh for a little while.]

Okay...okay. Uh, anyway. I'm Rin and I've actually been here a while but I can never figure out these computers so hey. Sup. Also to that kid who's book I accidentally set on fire earlier today, sorry. M'bad.


[Prose]
Rin normally stuck to himself. He had always been kind of a loner before coming to the school and even after that remained the same. For the first year or so he was just too dangerous around others. His flames were set off by the tiniest provocation. Luckily he'd been learning control. He rarely flared up when angered anymore. It really took a lot to get him to go all blue flames on someone.

But sometimes it still happened. Sometimes his concentration would lapse and something as simple as a sneeze would cause him to set something on fire. And at that moment he was having quite the sneezing fit.

[ghostling]

[Ghost really hates this exercise. She always ends up the first "dead" because she refuses to go all out on anyone. Plus her invisibility is completely unreliable half the time, as is her phasing.

She sighs and heads off to find a place to hide. Something else she's not that good at. Or maybe she just doesn't try to be good at it.]

[vaudevil]

[Lee turns his back to the students and closes his eyes as he waits out the minute that counts down on his cellphone/wristwatch. Since it's of his own design, it did allow his ability to change its color and texture just like he can. Ah, the beauty of technology.

Once the watch beeps, he turns around and phases out in his run. The only thing that can be heard is his footfalls and breathing but other than that, he's completely invisible, bending the light tightly around his body with barely an outline of him seen.

The program within the Danger Room activates right as his alarm goes off to reveal several "men" brandishing pipes, chains, knifes, and other street weapons to aid in the challenge. With the safety on, no one was going to be literally killed in this exercise except for the holograms.]

[ghostling]

[As per usual Ghost doesn't last long. She's found almost immediately and while she does a pretty good job of taking down a few of the computer programmed thugs on without her powers (with the except of her arms of course) they eventually overwhelm her.

With a sigh and a shrug she heads to the red circle and sits. It's not that she can't take care of herself in these situations it's just that she doesn't take it seriously. Plus, if she were to get too caught up in a fight she could really end up hurting the other students.]

[vaudevil]

[Lee took out several of the thugs himself while invisible and found the students, picking them off one by one. After he was done and performs the head count, he steps out forward and phasing back in as if he was stepping out of the background. He stops just outside the circle with his arms folded.]

That...was interesting. At least this wasn't tag or you would all be inside this circle within minutes. Let's see, fifteen minutes and twelve seconds? Okay, I take that back.

It's an improvement from last time...which was terrible I might add. Utterly hideous. Now, this is the part where I'm supposed to give some sort of pep talk and uplift you in some small way.

It has been an improvement. That I will admit. At least you didn't reduce yourselves to hiding in closets with a shoebox on your head. Yes, we actually had someone do this. It was quite hilarious.

All in all, not too shabby for a second run, first run for most of you. And for you veterans, pitiful.

[He points to three people in the back.]

You, you and you. Run for five minutes, no powers. The rest of you, hit the showers. Ghost, a moment please.

[ghostling]

[She doesn't really appear to be listening to his whole motivational speech but she certainly hears when he calls her name. With a sigh she rises and makes her way over to him. If it didn't throw off her balance she would have been slouching.

She's pretty sure she knows what's going to be said, it's usually the same old thing.]

Aye?

[arcwind]

With this specific sneeze fit Rin seems to have set some poor kid's book on fire. Said book must weigh almost as much as said reader and it goes up like kindling.

Soren (said reader) stares at the blue fire for a moment with little in the way of surprise, and with a vague gesture blows it out with his own wind powers. Then with a 'thud' closes the heavy tome and turns to look at Rin.

If distaste could have a pure undiluted look he'd be getting it now.

[devilsfire]

Rin sniffed and rubbed his nose as she looked over at Soren's books. "Uh, sorry. I must be comin' down with something." Which was impossible really. Rin's immune system was impeccable, he'd probably never been sick a day in his life.

[vaudevil]

[Lee cants his head to the side with his arms folded over his chest.]

I would like to train you personally. Your holding back is really stifling your ability to adapt. I've read up on your Nether energy. It's an extraordinarily rare gift, or curse depending on how you look at it.

Why do you hold back so much? I'm curious to hear your answer.

[He's not interested in the textbook response. He's interested in a more human response directly from the source.]

[ghostling]

[She blinks at him. The only other person that taken a real interest in her powers had been Hank. But he was most about studying the nature of the Nether.]

I don't wanna accidentally hurt anyone, sir. Plus it kinda makes e'eryone uneasy.

[She stares at her hands with a small frown.]

[arcwind]

He stares for another uncomfortable moment before holding out his hand, palm up.

"$200."

[devilsfire]

Rin's eyes nearly popped out of his head as he jumped up. "Tw-two hundred?! Do I look like I got that kinda money?!"

He shoved his hands into his pockets and pulled them inside out. Nothing but lint...

[arcwind]

"It doesn't matter if you 'look' like you have anything. You destroyed an imported book. 200 is me being generous."

He seemed to almost smirk. "People who can't control their powers shouldn't be allowed out in public. You're just another example as to why."

[devilsfire]

"Maybe ya shouldn't have been readin' yer damn book outside." Rin was clearly irritated at this point. His tail had unwound itself from around his torso and was sweeping back and froth behind him.

"Fuck you! My powers are controlled but sometimes a sneeze sets them off."

[vaudevil]

[Lee purses his lips and smacks. He isn't a typical instructor and being as old as he is, he's seen a lot more than he admits.]

It's a very understandable cause and effect reason. However, the uneasiness, that's something that each individual has to overcome. Have you ever hand someone's hand before?

[Accelerated healing is a go with Lee so even if she were to hurt him, he can heal rapidly. He holds out his hand.]

Give it a try.

[impersonal_space]

[ Prose ]

Dressed in gym clothes, her long blonde hair tied up in red ribbons, a woman stood in the center of a gym mat. There were no classes happening at the moment, and though there might be a few students and other residents mingling about, the space was largely empty.

She could do this outside, but when she pushes her limits she tends to get distracted easily by the sights and sounds.

Yukari spreads her hands open, eyes closed, mind focused on the task at hand. Before her is a narrow, but long tear in the air. This "gap" is pitch black, but leaves no shadow even as it expands to the space of about a meter. Her hand moves and the shape follows the gesture, the abyss growing until it looks as if the entire oval could engulf a door.

Then, eyes squeezing shut tighter, she changes her stance and appears to be pushing on this shape. Her hands never make contact, but nevertheless it is obvious what she is after. There doesn't seem to be any progress, and the void soon fills with an odd sort of static. The snowy pattern intensifies until a minute passes and it blinks from existence, the woman collapsing to her knees on the mat.

(Anyone with the appropriate sort of psychic abilities will have heard or felt that static hiss before growing and growing, until the gap disappeared. It was coming from her just as much as it was coming from inside that hole, for reference!)


[ Action ]

[ The woman in the elegant dress was new to the campus. Her arrival had been earlier in the day, beginning with a meeting in Xavier's office, and now she was wandering the grounds outside and learning the layout.

Violet eyes regarded the scenery from under a sturdy pink parasol, her expression shifting from the curious, to enamored, to bored. It's hard to tell what she's thinking and, indeed, her thoughts are quite mixed about all this.

But she is here now, and she means to stay. To do that, Yukari must investigate, and what better way to do that than to stand in a common outdoor area and look positively lost? Surely someone will come to her aid. ]

[ghostling]

[She looks at his hand before giving a laugh.]

I know yer tryin' t'help but holdin' someone's hand doesn't mean anything. No' when I can't feel it. Ain't like when I still had m'arms, I don't feel that warmth anymo'.

[arcwind]

"And you could have sneezed in the library. You're grasping at straws." He finally fully turned toward the other young man, really to argue this with a bit more attention.

"...as for 'sometimes'... sometimes a man trips while cleaning his gun and kills his children. You're not any more special then any other idiot refusing to accept responsibility for how dangerous they are."

[devilsfire]

"I wouldn't even be caught dead in a damn library!" Yes, he did just admit that.

"That's like comparing apples to oranges! My fire isn't even that dangerous, not unless I'm angry. I'm sure you damn expensive book is just fine, maybe only a little charred. Still readable!" What was wrong with this guy?! Did he want a fight?

[vaudevil]

[Lee's own smile stayed even as she laughed.]

That's not what I'm aiming for. I'm wanting to gauge your control over that energy and see if you are not just holding yourself back because of your own fear.

[ghostling]

[She stared at his hand a bit longer before letting out a sigh.]

With o' without th' glove? 'Cause it gonna be cold eithah way.

[arcwind]

Rin's anger didn't seem to even faze him- or at least he didn't seem to show any obvious signs of being angry in return. If anything he just looked annoyed, like Rin was a overly loud child arguing something he couldn't fully understand.

"And when you get angry? What then?"

[devilsfire]

Which was pretty much the case. Rin was just a loud child that didn't understand a lot of things. He did understand how dangerous his flames could be, after all he'd nearly burnt his home down before coming to the Institute. And once here he'd hurt a lot of people.

"Then if I let it out I could hurt someone. But I've learned to control that." Although he still hadn't controlled the fiery aura that would start to envelope his body when angered. While it didn't do anything but protect him and look intimidating it was still worrisome. And that's what was happening now.

[arcwind]

"Yes, you look very controlled right now." That look of disdain? By this point had become outright contempt. "I'm very impressed."