A Certain City of Espers

***Cait is from Ireland.

As for the espers, what about Jordan? When do I get to play around with him?***


Cait

Cait giggled, looking up at him. "You don't have to stand for me. It's nothing - "

"No. You deserve it!" Ren countered, joining her on the stage. He sat down on the piano stool beside her, looking at the clipboard in front of her. "What's that?"

She turned her attention to the paper. It was obviously hand-written music, judging by the style of the notes and the various other scribbles and eraser marks. She lost intensity in her smile. "This is one of the pieces I'm working on. It's 'Una Noche', by the group Il Divo." She pointed at the bottom line. "This is the piano part. The top four lines are the vocals."

"They're all different, though."

"Of course." She scoffed humorously. "It's called harmony." She put her fingers to the keys, beginning the chorus. B-flat-3, G-2, D-2... "The top two do run together with the same line, but you see here, in measure thirty..." she shifted her fingers to a new chord: a B-flat-4, G-3, E-flat-3, and B-flat-3 combination, "...they split. Now you have all four parts."

She took her hand off and began playing through the piece, reading the music. She played the accompaniment with her left hand - a repeated set of arpeggios - and the voice parts with her right. She sang the primary melody, trying her best with the words. That was all that she had not accomplished yet - memorizing the Spanish.


*** Il Divo - Una Noche -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_6S5QcoC4 (I will post my own videos soon, once I finish the arrangement.)***

(Soon. I want to wait until Takeo gets attacked again, which will be tonight when he goes home. After that the enemy will confront Jordan and try to convince him to work for them.

I need to think about what I'm going to post for a bit, so I'll get back to this.)

Sorry about the delay again, it's been pretty crazy over here. I've done the edits now and here's a post:

Takeo

Awesome! That was wicked fun, that was amazing, that was- Taki stopped walking abruptly as he heard a second set of footsteps following him out. His stomach flipped over, he clenched his fists and as he turned-

"Lena," Takeo said, shocked to see the familiar girl standing just a few steps away. He crossed his arms and tried to look macho, biting back the jumpiness. Man. How was he ever going to make it home when he was jumping at shadows? This was ridiculous! Here he was with more power than he'd ever had before and he was afraid of bogey men hiding in the dark. Except these men were real. That was the problem.

"Takeo," Lena said stiffly." Since when did you get strong enough to start throwing people around?" She arched an eyebrow at him and Taki tried his most charming smile.

"You're annoyed? What the hell, Katsurou got what's been coming to him, that's all. And if I got a bit stronger, so what? We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later, I am amazing afterall. In fact, I was just about to go and ask for a re-test." The way Lena was staring at him almost made him feel uncomfortable. Why couldn't she be all shy and blushing like some of the other girls? That was much easier to deal with.


Bianca

Someone trying to steal her bag that morning had been one thing but breaking into a bank in Academy City? What the hell was going on! Were people going crazy or something? That bank was guarded by high power individuals who were now...

"Hey, do you suppose they're okay?" Bianca asked worriedly, looking toward the bank. She grabbed her board, grateful to see that it was okay and looked over at Sky.

"I don't suppose they are," she said wryly. "Let's go see if we can help." Bianca was surprised but nodded eagerly. Most girls would be screaming and being silly right now but Sky wanted to help? Awesome! Then again, she wasn't most girls. Abandoned by her parents, ouch. Any kid would have to toughen up.

"Better yet let's slow them down!" Bianca said, nodding to the van where the men were unpacking. Without another word she urged Sky to take her board. "I'm going to see if I can teleport into that van. You can follow on this or go tell the guard which way they go or-" But planning had never been her strong point and Bianca was worried they might get away. Concentrating, she visualised in her head where she wanted to be - the back of the van, hidden by the money - and then prepared to teleport.

Lena

Takeo and me stood in the hallway staring at each other. I could tell that he felt kind of award, but it didn’t bother me at all. “Well, I should get going…” he stated, stressing the going part. He turned around, and started to walk off, but I was not done with him yet. Walking up behind him, I reached out and grabbed his arm. He twisted around to look at me, surprise was event on his face.

“I’m not done yet.” I stated harshly, “First off, when did you become this strong? Okay, I know that you were a level 3, but still, moving people? Second, you have been acting a little jumpy. Are you sure that your okay?”

Takeo stated at me, and then suddenly a look of exhaustion appeared on his face. I suddenly felt really bad about bring up all those questions, it was not even my business. Sighing, I held my hand out and smiled a tiny bit, “Let me walk you home…please?”. I was only concerned for him. After I was sure that he was okay, I would leave. Nothing else to it.

Sky snatched up Bianca's board and took off on it. This was just the adrenaline rush she'd been waiting for. She could tell that Bianca was readying herself for the teleport, so she just took off toward the thieves. The van wasn't far away, and they had just started it. It rolled off the curb at a slow pace at first, then gradually started gaining speed. Why didn't they rush off like any normal crooks? Did they feel that confident in their heist? Sky pushed the board even harder until her legs felt like fire, every muscle screaming to just stop and relax. She was in jumping distance of the van. Sky had to weigh her options and measure the distance.

Jump! Now! Her instincts screamed at her. At that moment, she launched herself off the skate board, diving through the closed back door on the van. Please work! She was at a low level, and feared that she wouldn't phase completely through the door. Tumbling into the van, and smashed into one of the crooks, both of them shocked by the impact.

I made it! That was when she came to the realization that she had no plan of action, had no idea what to do, and was stuck with a bunch of thieves.

"Uh, oh...."

(Takeo is a level 3, by the way. Also, I'd like to post Takeo going home when you guys get to that point, I have something waiting for him there. And while I'm at it, Ayaka will be following Taki and Lena on their way home.

We can skip to after school if you guys want. There's really nothing else to here at this point anyway.)

Ren

Cait played the music magnificently. She hit all the right notes, both on the piano and with her voice. Ren had no idea their school had such a talented artist. Her only trouble, however, was pronouncing the words correctly. He recognized the dialect someone, it was Spanish he believed. He was surprised she could speak any of it at all, considering the school didn't teach it. Despite her trouble with the language barrier, she performered to the best of her ability and it ended up sounding great.

When she was done, Ren said, "That was amazing, Cait."

"Thanks," she said with a smile. "I've been working on it for a while, but I just can't seem to get the Spanish right."

"Well, even without it the music sounds great."

The lunch bell rang at that point. Both of them looked at their watches at the same time. "It's lunch time already?" Cait asked.

"Yeah, I guess we were in here longer than we thought. Let's go grab something to eat." The two of them went to the cafeteria together, although they didn't get there in time to see Taki's stunt.
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Bianca & Sky

Bianca teleported as soon as she saw Sky jump in, but her aim was off and she ended up tumbling against the pavement. She scrambled back to her feet to try again before the van was out of her range, but stopped when another girl appeared in front of her out of thin air. She knew enough to know this girl was a teleporter just like her. The girl had long red hair done up in pigtails and wore a Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, meaning she went to the same school as Railgun. Pinned to her sleeve around her upper arm was a Judgement armband, which was dark green with a shield symbol on it.

Judgement was Academy City's student employed disciplinary committee which dealt mostly with maintaining the peace and keeping an eye out for troublesome individuals. Bianca was surprised to see a member of Judgement in this kind of situation, robbery was the jurisdiction of Academy City's main armed police force, Anti-Skill.

The girl looked at Bianca and said, "It's not safe here, you need to leave the area right now."

"But my friend is already inside that van with the robbers!" Bianca said.

The girl gave her a smile. "Don't worry, I'll take care of it." She reached a hand down to her thigh where two leather straps holding metal nails were wrapped around each leg. The nails were about five to six inches in length and looked to be about twenty per leg strap. She ran her fingers along the strap, and every nail she touched disappeared. They heard the sound of tires popping just before the robbers' van spun out and stopped in the middle of the street.

(Just a post to remind you guys that the storybook isn't dead.)

(Can anybody think of something to post? It's been almost a week and the next time I'm going to post is probably going to be Sunday night.)

( I would, but I'm not sure what to do since that last post you made for me and Bianca. Kinda waiting now.)

(You could start some kind of hostage situation with your character being the hostage.)

(Sounds good to me!)

Sky

A million thoughts raced through her head. Where is Bianca? What do I do now? The man she had slammed into was recovering from the hit, and the other was momentarily stunned by her appearance. They both recovered in an instance, and seized Sky by her wrists viciously , tying them up behind her.She kicked and thrashed as hard as she could, but to no avail. Their grips were tight as iron, and Sky was too panicked to phase.

"We don't know what crossed your stupid little mind, but you aint going any where!" The first guy was practically yelling at her.

"You might even be useful to us." The second guy grinned and leaned back against the wall of the van. Sky knew she was in trouble, and hoped like crazy that Bianca would show up right about now.

***I'm drawing blanks, right now, too... I'm sorry. I don't think I could think of anything that would be considered interesting or helpful for the plot.***

I don't post for three days and it's considered almost a week? XD Don't worry Dy, we love you <333

As for post, watch this space. It will probably be tomorrow morning as I feel rather awful right now but I'll be at it soon xx

((Wanted to let everyone know that I am going Camping Friday-Wednesday. Not sure if they have Internet, if they do, I'll try and post. If not, then I'll catch up when I get back.))

Heeeeey

Takeo

Walk me... home. Was this girl serious? Takeo stared at her with a lack of comprehension while the cogs turned slowly in his head. "I'm not even going home yet," he mumbled, half defeated. I've only just had lunch! And then I was going to go and ask for a re-test and- "And I don't need walking home by a girl."

She gave him a big frown after that and he half expected her to put her hands on her hips like his mum did when she was cross with dad. Instead she gave a little sneer and said: "Well if you must, you can pretend that you're walking me home. I'll see you here at the end of the day. Don't make me wait."

And with that she was gone. Takeo would have disagreed except she really didn't give him a chance. Well. It wasn't like he'd actually be there. Ch'yeah right. With a snort he headed off to class and when the end of day bell finally rang, he made straight for the main office. Taki hadn't forgotten about his decision to ask for another testing. In fact, having thought about it, he was more sure than ever. And the story about what happened at lunch time had been getting about and quite simply, Takeo loved the attention. Everyone whispered about him, the boys high fived him and the girls alternated between rolling their eyes and fluttering their eyelashes. Life sure was sweet.

By the time he reached the office though he was in for an unpleasant surprise. "You. What are you doing here?" Takeo stared at Lena in disbelief.

"Well I remembered you was going to ask for a re-test so obviously it's easier if I meet you here. You haven't forgotten have you?"

Takeo sighed and shook his head. "Of course not. You need a big strong guy like me to walk you home." He planted a smug expression on his face and then knocked on the office door. Might as well get this over with.

"I'd like a re-test," Taki said as soon as the head master opened the door. He blinked and stared at the youth in disbelief, not having heard the gossip yet.

"I beg your pardon young man."

"I said I'd like to be tested again, sir. I'm ready to be a level four now."

"Oh you are, are you?" What was his problem? Was he death or something? How many times did Taki have to repeat himself? This time he nodded eagerly and tried his most charming smile.

"Well you see sir, this is how it is. I can move people now which is clear level four behaviour so I'd like a re-test. At the end of the week if that's possible. I don't want to miss out on study time if I'm going to make level five by next year." Of course that really did surprise the head master. Everyone knew that advancing from level four to level five took a lot of practice and several years of training. He hadn't met anyone as foolish and big headed as this boy.

"We'll see about that. What did you say your name was?"


Bianca

As the van's tires ripped open and the vehicle screeched to a halt, Bianca felt her skin go clammy. Yikes! But Sky was in there and she was in trouble and yet... the judgement girl looked so cool. Bianca felt like a poser. Beside the red haired girl, she was one of those whiny, over-dramatic screamers.

"Stay back while I get your friend out," the girl said firmly. Bianca wrinkled her nose in annoyance. Who was she to tell her what she should do? What made her so much better equipped for this, because her powers were stronger? Then she felt her head deflate. Yeah. That thing with the tires had been so cool! Bianca envied her so much for her control.

"Okay," Bianca said softly with a nod. But the girl wasn't listening. In fact, she'd already teleported over to the van and was waiting now for the doors to be thrown open.

Moving closer, Bianca hid beside a parked car just a few metres away. She even picked her board up which was lying on the pavement, hardly scuffed and still in working order.