Can I join? (maybe as somebody's partner…)

Name: Hazel Darkshade

Age: 12

Gender: Female

Appearence: blonde hair that curls gently, green eyes. Tall, athletic, always wears a t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes.

Personality: smart, sarcastic, and kind, but fairly irritable

Power: she can warp time, which sometimes makes her seem to move faster.

Mark~

Walking and looking for Terrance or John, I circle back the way that I came earlier when ditching Ellie. I begin to whistle as I come up upon Celia and Larkin, and then…a flash of pain explodes in my head and a strange intstinct to get to shelter comes over me. Danger. My feet suddenly grow wings (not litterally peeps; its just a figure of speech) and I run towards the girls. That's the way this freak power works; I get a splitting headache, a sudden surge of energy, and the instinct to get everyone around me to safety. Celia and Larkin protest as I demand that they get to shelter. No time! No time! I think frantically. The ground begins to pulse beneath my feet as my danger sense directs me towards a cave.

"I'm in here!" I call back. Celia quickly scrambles into the rocky nook with Larkin, sketchbook in hand, following closely behind. The ground shakes harder. Rocks tumble from higher cliffs and over the cave's entrance. I'm thrown to the ground in the shaking tumult, and for a few seconds I can't distinguish which way is up and and which way is down. After a few endless minutes, the shaking begins to subside. I lay on the ground, panting.

"You all right?" Larkin asks her shaken partener.

"Fine, you?" Celia directs the question at me. I'm about to answer "yeah," but an awful, blinding headache springs up from nowhere. My lungs feel pressed by an unseen force and I can't breathe. I think I scream or Celia screams or someone else does, but I can't tell. I want to run; to shake off the pain; but I can't move. I feel the tight, pressing tension drop as the danger to whomever is no longer so pressing, but my head still pounds horribly. 

"What's wrong? Are you hurt?" Celia asks. Blinking several times before I can focus on her face, I push her hand away. Already the headache is fading. 

"No, but someone else is," I answer, "probably several people." 

"How can you tell?" Larkin questions incredulously. Stonily silent, I refuse to answer her. I'm a freak. A freak. A freak. Morover; a freak who doesn't even have my powers under control. 

And here's Ellie!! Sorry, I tried not to control Voidling too much, but its kind of hard when you're having a conversation with him. 

Ellie~

"No. No. I don't know what you're—"

"Ah, but you do," replies the THING inside my head, "I can sense it." 

"That's ridiculous! No one can be immortal," I reply. 

"And is it ridiculous that you can communicate with animals?" The voice questions earily.

"I'm just good with them, that's not—" I begin. Although I am terrified out of my mind (literally), I still manage to put up a fight. Even when this otherworldly being seems to know all of my deepest secrets. 

"I can sense that you have been around an immortal being, although you do not know who," my own voice, and yet not my voice, tells me, "you are no use to me—" my heart leaps. Perhaps it will let me go! "—now, but you have proven my suspicious. There is a scent of immortality about you; from one of your little friends perhaps. You will tell no one this, understand?" A flash of painful scenes, most of them concerning people forced to jump off cliffs by their own controlled minds jumps across my head, "although you won't need to worry about that," the being finishes ominously in my own voice. Suddenly, it feels as if something inside me has snapped. I just have time to scream before the world fades away and everything goes black. 

Cool! I'll make a charrie sheet and post tomorrow. 

We were talking about Earthquakes in my Earth Science class, and I mentioned that I was in a RP story and that there was currently an earthquake. I said that we were in a cave for shelter, and that some of us had a split second warning (Mark's powers). My teacher asked everyone whether they thought a cave would be a good place, and we reasoned that no, it wasn't a good place during an earthquake. 🙂

Top! This was fun!!

(Earthquake and Earth Science discussion continued…) Then again, Mark is not one to pay attention in science class, so he wouldn't know that a cave would be dangerous during an earthquake 😛

Sasha~

I sigh, following behind my partner, ______(sorry I forgot who it's supposed to be). I wished I had gotten a partner that was actually enthusiastic about the trip. Like, maybe that girl that the Mark guy got to partner up with. Well, there's not much I could do now. I hoisted my hiking pack higher up on my back and speed up my steps.

An hour of occasional akward small talks later, _____ decides to call a break. The spot that we stop at is nice, with a little stream burbling past and beautiful lush green foliage, and the ground was dappled with such wonderful paterns of light. I pull out my camera quickly and snap a few photos while my partner wanders off to do his own thing. Looking around to make sure he's gone completely, I take my backpack off and nimbly jump from stone to stone until I'm standing more or less in the middle of the stream. I look at my bag and shoes strewn over the bank and feel annoyed at myself. It would have made such a nice, artsy picture! This time, I just walk straight through the stream, the cool water slipping over my toes. It feels so refreshing. Until it begins to vibrate. I take one more step onto the bank, and the ground begins to shake. Hard. Panicking, I grab my shoes and backpack and take off at a run through the forest, searching frantically for shelter. I see someone's foot disappear into a cave and, completely forgetting about what we've learned in Earth Science, dive in after them. In the quiet dark of the cave, I sit for a moment, breathing hard, eyes closed, head tilted back. When I open them, the other people in here are staring at me. All the while, the ground is shaking harder and harder. "Umm… Are you guys sure this place is safe?" I say hesitantly.

"It's the best I could find!" Mark snaps, sounding defensive.

"I'm not judging you for it!" I say, my voice rising, "Let's just go in deeper. It'll probably give us a more stable structure to hide beneath."

After a second's deliberation, murmurs of ascent come from the others in the cave. I lead the way as we crawl further and further downwards. Suddenly, I feel a baby's breath of a breeze on my face. I pause, confused. The cave has been on a steady downslope the whole time. How could there be any air? Shaking my head, thinking I imagined it, I continue onwards. Suddenly, I go around a bend, and there is light. Now I'm really getting confused, but I keep walking. A few minutes later, we emerge into a forest…

But it's not the one we just came from. Not even close.

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Sorry I haven't posted at all yet. Hopefully, this will make up for it a little bit!! 🙂