Roxy stood in the shadow of an alley on the rough side of her hometown. She spent most of her time in the shadows hiding from her father and his men. She rubbed at the odd stone that had appeared on her collarbone. A day after it appeared she had received a letter stating that the stone gave her powers if only she could learn to use them. She just had to figure out how to get there. Anywhere was better then here. She made her way to the bus station.

Lorenzo was in his hometown dealing with some fuckboy thugs who thought were a bunch of bad asses as he leaned against the wall of a bar thinking about the letter he received that morning inviting him to some building but also stating the stone he has on his chest that have him powers. Zo started to make his way over to his uncle's chopper, taking it with him to meet at this place the letter told him to go.

Charles would get out of the black car he was in, he'd glance back at the driver "is this the place?" he would ask. The driver would simply nod and say "head on in". Charles would sigh some rubbing his back, he probably looked weird to a lot of people with his out fit but he didn't care. He'd watch the building as the car drove out of sight, he'd wonder why he was chosen for this.

Avary hopped off the bus in front of the building the letter had told him to go to. He scratched the smooth stone in his inner right forearm. He walked towards the building, not going in, and waiting for other people to arrive.

After a few hours of riding, Lorenzo made it to the facility, following the instructions on how to get there, pulling his uncle's chopper up to the front as he took the helmet off and looked around "This is it huh?" he said getting off the bike and walking to the front entrance.

Hearing a faint rustling from beside her, Eve tried to ignore the miniature crystalline icy dragon that appeared to be sitting on her shoulder. 'Appeared' being the key word there. She could see the dragon, and she could both hear and smell it, but it had no physical presence. She had found that out the first time she had attempted to pick it up from napping in her waste basket, when she had reached for it her hand had gone right through. It had appeared the same day as the strange, deep red, slightly ominous stone embedded in her wrist, so she figured they were linked, but no matter what she had done the dragon wouldn't go away, it just sat smugly on her desk blowing smoke rings through it's nose, accompanied with little huffing noises.

So now, of course, it was haughtily surveying everything from it's perch on her shoulder as she clambered off the bus, and either people round here were used to tiny blue dragons riding round on shoulders, or Eve was the only one who could see it, which, when she thought about it that way, made much more sense.

A mysterious letter had brought her here, and really it had been a strange thing among strange things, so she wasn't that surprised to see she wasn't the only one loitering outside the building. Tugging her hoodie closer around her Eve glared up at the building and fished for courage, taking silent confidence from the purple-grey smoke rings drifting out in front of her.

Roxy studied the others from the shadows. It appeared that she wasn't the only one who had found a strange rock and received a letter. She was curious about what the others could do. None of seemed impressive or threating. She was pretty sure she could take them all. But that wasn't enough to convince her to step out of the shadows and greet them. The door to the building opened and an old man stepped out.

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On his way to the front door, Zo noticed others have showed up besides himself. Perhaps, they were like him but he didn't feel like asking at the moment as he looked at the male and what looked to be female and spoke "What's up!" he said but out the corner of his eye, he noticed movement and turned to look at this old man that emerged from the building. Staring at the man's expression, Zo spoke "Sup? were you the one that sent me this shit?" holding up the invitation. "How the hell you know I have powers at all and the gem thing you mentioned on here, how you know about that too?" he asked.

"What's up!" Blinking once Eve glanced at the boy who had spoken, getting out a quiet "The sky," before being sidetracked by the old man, and the boy's…… interesting questions, ones she would quite like answered herself, although she couldn't help with sucking in a slight breath when he mentioned the gem. Apparently he had a stone too, not that that shocked her to be honest, there really wasn't any other reason for them all to be loitering outside the same building on the same day.

All in all though, she decided to keep her mouth firmly shut for now.

@King Tai@KatherinWinter

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"Yes I am the one who sent you the letter. There is a lot of things that I know a lot of things. Come inside. I will tell you about the gems and my knowledge of them. There is a lot to discuss and it would be better if we talk about it inside where you all can be more comfortable. Gem indicated to the building again. He needed to get them inside before they attracted attention.

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Looking back at the girl with her response, a slight chuckle before turning to listen to what the old man was saying. When he explained that he was the one that sent the letter and his knowledge about the gems, Zo nodded and started to head inside but turned around to the girl who spoke to him before "What's you're name?" he asked bluntly

"Caitlyn, But you can call me Eve. And you are?" She answered his question, no matter how direct it might be, with a smile. Only the slight scuffing of her army-boots against the gravel giving any indication of her nervousness.

Turning to the old man however, she frowned slightly, "I was always told not to get into a car with strangers, and while this ain't a car, close enough." the frown slowly gave way to a grin, "However if that were the case, I wouldn't have bothered with the excessive bus-ride to get here." hiking her camo backpack up higher onto her shoulder, Eve blinked, "Although I do bite. …… just saying."

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Charles would watch the others with a raised brow.. they seemed weird like him, and when they begun to speak about gems then he figures they are here for same reason, he wondered if they could do the same thing or was different. He begun to think about the mysterious gem that appeared on him and he shook his head some. he would simply go in when they was invited sense he had been just watching the building mostly.

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Zo looked back at Caitlyn when she introduced herself and asked for his name as well. "Lorenzo....but you can just call me Zo." He looked her up and down studying her movements and actions. He could tell she was nervous and being direct as he is, he says what's on his mind "You nervous or somethin'?" he asked wondering what was there to be nervous about?

"Yep, I'm nervous." Eve admitted, tugging at the sleeves of her hoodie, "I'm a teenager a long way from home, surrounded by strangers, and experiencing more than my fair share of weirdness, I think I'm entitled to be a little nervous, yeah?" It was of course at that time that the little dragon on her shoulder decided to make itself known again, letting out a soft huffy mewl and a puff of smoke, apparently affronted that she was ignoring it in favour of talking, to another human no less. Jostling her sholuder slightly and flicking her hand softly, she grinned back up at Zo, "You're honestly telling me that you aren't at all nervous, about any of it? Not even a creepy stone, that appeared out of nowhere, that you can't seem to get rid of even with a blade? Really?"

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Zo crossed his arms hearing Eve out when she explained that she was nervous and why she was nervous. Zo looked at her shoulder when she flicked her hand at something (don't know if Zo is capable of seeing the dragon on her shoulder.) and raised an eyebrow.

Zo retorts "No....why should I? I've been through some shit in my life so...if being scared of everything was going to hinder me, I'd stay my punk-ass home. And I think the stone is bad-ass...it gave me powers so...I just think it gave me a chance to change stuff in my life. It didn't kill me or give me a disease that I know of...so...there's no need in me panicking. And if that old fart want's to bring us here to do something bad, he has a hell of a fight coming. and I don't think i want to get rid of the gem if that means my power will go away." Zo explained

"What can you do? I assume you have powers like me...."

Avary watched from the shadows, watching the others talk. He sighed, why aren't they asking more questions about why this had happened to them?

"Nervous, not scared, they're different. Nervous simply means I'm wary, …and possibly a little jumpy, scared would leave me running for the hills." She grinned at him then, "And you're right, had I been scared I'd have stayed safely at home probably tucked up in bed wishing it would all just go away, turns out that doesn't work, surprising as that may be." she shrugged again, happily dislodging the little blue dragon for a few seconds, and ignoring it's annoyed growl. "You got powers? With the stone? I mean the letter said as much, but I just got an annoying attention seeking little thing, that no one else can see. Either that or I'm hallucinating. And either way still no powers. …… although talking about the letter, aren't there better questions to be asking, things like…" She turned to the old man, "How did you know who to send letters to? Do you know what powers everyone has? Why are we here? What do you want from us? How many of us are there? Why here specifically? And Why on earth did this happen, and why to us?"

@King Tai@KatherinWinter

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"Come inside. We have much to discus. I know you all have questions. I will explain what I can." Gem assured her. He indicated to the building. The old building had seemed like the perfect place for their base. It was on the edge of town so they could get supplies easily. He just hope that they were ready for what was to come. It wouldn't be easy. They were so young. But the gems always picked those that fit them the best.

@SilverWolfAngel@KatherinWinter

Silently hearing this girl explain everything, Zo sighed "Alright, fine...I'm not nervous or scared. That's just me in general...has nothing to do with my power...and yeah...I do have powers...I would think all of you who is meeting here would have the same situation like me with the stone and abilities.

Thinking for a moment "Hm? Seeing something no one else can see? you see spirits or somethin'? he asked but at the same time, she asked the old man a few more questions before walking into the building with the old man and looked back wondering if the new girl Eve and whoever else was out, would come in too. With the old man saying he'll explain everything, Zo thought that if the man said things he didn't like, he's leave from there and go back home to figure things on his own.