AT SShnC - PHASE 0: 雨気 ~Presages before the Storm~

[Altivarde]

Noticing upon how his shirt are basically "too darn tight" on the chest and arm, Homura opt to wearing a custom made uniform. In his mind, zippers is lifesaver. Unlike buttons, zippers are a lot more persistent, made to contain his firm chest.... Wait, why would he have same problem with females? He actually preferred if his outfit could at least show that he indeed is well built, not for being exhabitionist, but for preventing measurement so that he won't be mistooked as a feminine male. To his dismay, this happened: His body just decided "it's time to add more muscle" although he stopped taking the medicine altogether.

...Darn you Grandpa Akira... muttering his silent curse at the old Shaman's senility which make him having this sort of face, added with ripped body that is rare for a boy of his age... Well, the combination itself is similar to few things inside his mind. Let's say... Higanbana are beautiful, aren't they? While at the same time, Rose also beautiful... Yet the two can't be crossbreeded. It's unknown how, even Homura wish to know what is in Hymmnosphere's head when she start singing for creating his dear life. No use muttering strange stuffs.

Indra wasn't there, he seem already gone. Ah, no breakfast today. So that means...
Even Homura sighed in dismay. He might be a cooker, but his foods are simply Shamanic. Either that exotic food that everyone have to either cringe at the strange composition or really cheap looking meal of "fish, pickled turnip, miso soup and rice". Cheap indeed. Pondering which to cook, he finally decided his body need as much nutrient as it could for the day...

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No one know why the soup is so thick. The color itself is dark orange, nearly touching red, with trail of black pepper on it. Meat with it's bone, carrots, potatoes, rice mixed with milk, tomato pasta and several leaf-based vegetable powder, all mixed in one. It would look like a stew if not for extra stuff that make it do impression of lava-filled crater on minor level. It looks like Keel, if only not for the soup. Homura cringed at the sight.

...No matter what he can never used to his own cooking. He know it's edible and decent tasting, but that magma-like soup would make people think that it's REALLY SPICY. Sighing at his stupid attempt, he muttered a word of praise to Saki and Shelanoir for letting him eat like this, and for Hymmnosphere for assisting the two...

In the end the prayer took five minutes while the meal itself only lasted for two minutes. He took off to the class after cleaning his dishes and rest of the stuffs.

[Geiky]

[When all of you are finished in the dormitories, please move to this topic to RP the first subject of the day, in this case Comsoscrystal Training.]

[Meteor Weapon]

They've arrived to the room, as Kaylan was the first to arrive in front of the door, she opens the door for Isis, letting her in first, though there wasn't any real reason behind it, probably because Isis looked sleepy just to open the door.

As both went into the room, Isis sat on the bed to take a break after the long walk before changing to her PJ. She's still kinda dissapointed she didnt get the turn for her riddle but its not a big deal anyway.

"Here's a riddle, Isis. What's small, pudgy, and blue?" Kaylan asks.

Ask Kaylan ask suddenly, she ought to answer. What's small, pudgy, and blue? The answer was easy enough since this small, pudgy, and blue is almost everywhere in the wild.

"A pom?" she answered but clearly with a bit of hesitation, even though she knew it was right, it was probably the tiredness got her.

A moment after she answers, she sees Kaylan bites her lip.

Whats wrong? "Isis asked.

With a smile and outstretched arms, Kaylan announces, "It's an ice Pom! A present for being neighbors. I hope you like it."

Th-thank you. "Isis happily took the plushy from Kaylan's hands.

Though she already had another plushy she brought with along her, a plushie of chibi-ish girl wearing a green attire and a blond hair which she put in on her bed. But it doesn't seem to be problem to keep another one as she thought.

Isis still grasping and hugging the Ice pom plushie, they both chatted awhile. After awhile, sleepiness comes to Isis and her eyes had gotten heavier, she still have'nt changed her clothes yet. She gets up and says "Im going to change into the bathroom." She's still not used to change in front of another person so she ought to do it in the bathroom.

Later, as she comes back from the bathroom, she see's Kaylan already pulled her comforter. Seems that she's still slightly awake. "Are your going to sleep? I'll close the lights. Goodnight." she does the same and went to bed. The darkness of the night quickly submerges Isis into sleep.

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Darkness enshrouded eerywhere in her view....

"Where am I"

As she realized her own surrounding, part of her knows where she is, part of her doesn't know

"Ah....the usual place...."

A place of no dreams, a place of where only void, coldness, darkness, nihilation fills within her slumber.

It was a place she was not happy to be in, but it was also a place she had gotten used to. She cant even dislike it, hate or loath it.

It was place where dreams of sleep have no part within her, only darkness.

No matter how much she wanted to dream, it was not possible. She does not know the reason. She had never dream in her entire life during her sleep.

All she could do is float in the cold nothing, nothing to think, until the outside world wakes her up.

[Joel Dunamis]

Opening his eyes slightly, Dei looked at the clock. It’s…morning already? Sunlight didn’t enter Room 6’s window. The remains of dark cloud from last night could still be seen. It’s certainly not a good premonition for first day of the class. The brown-haired boy still felt sleepy, and he tempted to go back to sleep. But he couldn’t afford to do that. Slapping his cheek several times, he got up and walked to his roommate’s bed. Korell was still asleep. In an attempt to wake him up, he shook the boy’s shoulder. “Korell, wake up... It’s time for us to go to class.”

[veil13]

Time passes when Lecra is waiting for her roommate while reading book. Not noticing the time, she only waits as she read books. But then she notices that the time shows that she should be sleeping soon. She then looks around, making sure if her roommate is already back, but she didn't see her. Weird...She's not here yet...Oh well, I should go sleep now or I'll be late tomorrow. After that, she writes some things first in her diary, then go to sleep.

[Utsuho Lazy]

It was horrible. Ever since birth, Sikibu had never experienced anything that destructive to her poor mind. Her head was completely dizzy, she could hardly think of anything other than Ms. Akiko's "try not to get killed" warning. She was genuinely scared, and began regretting that she had allowed herself to leave the comfortable dark room she had been residing in and go out into such a chaotic and dangerous place like this. There were people everywhere, walking around, chatting, laughing, some of them even paid notice to her - after all, she probably stuck out like a sore thumb with those messy long hair and untidy, boring clothes.

Trying to avoid meeting eye as much as possible, she checked the class schedules. PE is not optional? What a pain. It looked like the only choices were between Socioeconomics VS Chemistry, and Wave Biology VS Philosophy. The first choice was easy - Chemistry all the way! Why in the world would someone like her care about the economy? As for the second choice, she was a bit attracted to how the word "Philosophy" ringed, but after much thought, she decided to pick Wave Biology after all. She would not want to feel oppressed in a class where the instructors would have different opinion than those of hers. Besides, Ms. Akiko who just gave her a tour didn't seem like the type who cared much, which means she would probably be safe from attention in class.

For a second, Sikibu thought about dropping by the Caféteria, but the feeling of wanting to throw up still lingered in her stomach. She wanted to save up money too, not for any particular reason, but she would hate getting stuck in a situation where she would need to ask for money from her family or someone else. Her eyes caught the attention of the announcement regarding the school parcel, and in preparation for the worst scenario, she started calculating how much money she would be allowed to spend per day if she only received one thousand Leaf per month. In confusion, she failed to remember that she still had the 10000 Leaf that every student started with, but then again that's the way she is.

Looking up at the list of part time jobs, it took her no more than one glance to decide on what she would be interested in - a work at the library! The idea of "helping the customers" scared her a little, but she hoped that those who visit libraries certainly must be quiet, introvert people like her, and would not trouble her any further than a couple of very simple questions. And once again, she started calculating how much money she would be allowed to spend if she were to receive the monthly pay from doing this job.

And then the next list was what that troubled her the most: the list of roommates. Where could I have been assigned to? She checked. Sikibu, Sikibu... The Academy's standard required that her name be written in reverse of her tradition, in other words given name preceding family name, but even then it didn't took too long for her to find out that she would be staying in Room 8, together with Lecra Atrunes. Such a nice name, and it sounded like a girl's name. She took a breath of relief. She would certainly faint on this very spot if her roommate had been a male.

All those information gathering had taken a lot of time, so Sikibu headed to the Office Strata in order to register for her classes. The secretary was a young man, and his smile was kind, but even then she could not stop her legs from shaking and her voice stuttering like a broken record. It took her a lot longer than other students to finish her registering for Chemistry and Wave Biology. Before she could finish signing her name, a public announcement resounded, telling the students to gather for a presentation party tonight.

"You definitely have to join this!" said the secretary with a honest voice, "It's a perfect chance for a shy kid like you to socialize, you know! Get along well, make some friends, enjoy youth, alright?" But events like parties are exactly what she could never stand. Too many people, too much noise, she would simply get drown in the mere atmosphere alone. So she decided to forget the secretary's suggestion and instead just went straight to the dorm, ignoring the waves of cheerful students who are heading out for the night party.

Arriving at her room, she checked the information engraved upon her brain again. My roommate is Lecra, Lecra Atrunes. All right, here I go! I'll try my best! And yet she opened the door so slowly and slightly, there was a weird creaking sound. But there was nobody inside. However, she could see that her roommate had already unpacked her stuffs, which means she had certainly arrived a while ago and had left for the party. Feeling relaxed, she entered the room, and began unpacking as well. Her package was incredibly simple, only a couple sets of clothes, underwear and daily necessities.

And then Sikibu sat on her bed, taking the surrounding into her eyes. The room was quite neat - the complete contrary of her own room which was a horrible mess. Still she felt a nice, heart-warming feeling from just being here. Maybe I'll take a bath... With that in mind, she went into the bathroom and spent an unnecessarily long time relaxing in the bath. But right after getting off and about to wear her clothes, she heard the sound of the room's door clicking open. Surprised, her body still naked, she hid herself behind the bathroom's door, hugging herself. Why am I hiding like this? It must be my roommate returning from the party, and yet what am I doing?

Peeking through the hinge, Sikibu saw a really pretty young girl entering the room and sitting on the bed. Without doubt, this girl was Lecra Atrunes, her roommate. The girl had pink hair with a gentle expression that calmed Sikibu down. Should I come out and greet her? But while thinking so, she realized that she had forgotten to bring new changes of clothes into the bathroom. What should she do now? It would be incredibly improper etiquette to just come out covered in a towel, so after much thought she decided to just stay here and wait until her roommate, Lecra, went to sleep.

But that was a stupid decision. Her roommate was probably intentionally waiting for her, so she sat there and read books. The warm water in the bath tub had already cooled off, and now the room was almost frozen cold, making Sikibu tremble in shiver. It must have felt like ages until Lecra closed her book, wrote something into her diary, and laid on the bed. Even then, Sikibu still waited a little more until she decided that the coast was completely clear, before finally leaving her hiding spot and getting pajamas to wear. I've probably caught a cold - this sucks. I'll just take some medicine then go to sleep right away, otherwise I won't get better fast enough for tomorrow's morning classes.

Turning to Lecra, now sleeping peacefully, she whispered at a voice quiet so as to not wake up her roommate. "My name is Sazonari Sikibu... Pleased to meet you! Please take care of me!" And then she drifted off into the world of dreams the moment her head touched the softness of a pillow. It had been a long day for her.