[IC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[HereComesTheSnow]

Luke Schwarz -- Y-you too

With valiant resolve and impeccable self-control, Luke fell prey to neither of the two extremes of his jaw dropping in amazement at the fluidity and facility of Gratia's work, nor his eyes glazing over at the sheer volume of equations placed upon the sheet. Instead, they found a happy medium, scanning along intently as she worked through the problem on what seemed like automatic.

Even her calligraphy is good! Is there any way at all I stack up favorably?

Standing out immensely from the normally neat enough, but in comparison chickenscratch answers surrounding it, 13e, devised by Belial himself, had been soundly defeated in impeccable fashion.

"Got it." he said, after a period of glancing over the equation a couple more times. "Uh, thanks."

Turning after an awkward moment, writing down the aforementioned page numbers, he tapped Cian on the shoulder again.

"I, uh, basically got the entire thing and then some."

[shadowkiller912]

Vega Venetia and Sarina Tala Dei - Beacon

Vega stepped out of a VTOL, “Gratias tibi ago” (“Thank you”) as she looked at the male pilot over her shoulder bearing the lettered insignia on his shoulder VNC. “Haud forsit." (“No problem”). “Sumus semper pro vobis.” (We are always here for you). The VTOL aircraft took off. Vega then walked towards Beacon, entering inside to see Sarina reclining on a wall looking straight at her. Sarina looked tired, weary, but always looking spiffy. “Quomodo poterat?"(“How was it”)

“"Erat aptos mane. Non me quaerere , nimis impares notabilis incoepit cum amicis qui viderint te in conspectu tuo in ponantur Vale.”

(“It was a somber morning. I didn’t try to make myself noticeable since it would be too odd to reappear in front of your relatives and friends who know you are supposed to be in Vale.”)

"Atqui uideo. Ne tradas me retineo. Nolo enim cogitare quid ad me ... bene eveniat quinquaginta sentio habere puta saltas dimidio sanguine."

(“I see. Do not give me the details. I don’t want to think about it since it may happen to me or to you…well you have fifty percent chance of having it since you’re a half-blood.”)

Vega nodded in agreement. “... Alioqui quid ad te?” (Anyway…what happened to you?)

“Ego et Clair habuit missio ut percutiat animam sanguinis Ogdoad sita in saltu Smaragdus. Tantum est ut etiam ad spectaculum membrana..."
(I and Clair had a mission to kill an Ogdoad located in the Emerald Forest. Only thing is that it was also filmed for a show...) as Sarina made annoyed hmph. “Proiectura autem Im 'iens esse ... “(“Now I’m going to be on projection…”) making an angry sigh.

"Quod si rem a me cave ne praetoriae repraesentabant modum te praetorium . Alioqui quomodo interficiunt Ogdoad?!"

(That’s the reality of being a Praetorian though I‘m sure you represented yourself in the manner of a Praetorian. Anyway, how did you kill the Ogdoad?!)

“Ut breviter consilium caedis initium non tunc procedit et ad Blastum intulimus discerpere possit.”

(“To make it short, our original plan for killing it did not go through but then we brought the Ogdoad down and teare it up”) Sarina making a conceited smile. She then got off from the wall and started walking within Beacon with Vega.

Vega made a small laugh.

“Clair me impressa. Ea pugna par ingenio sunt in aliquo molestaretur antiquior devolvitur deficiente autem in Academiarum. Et simile studium cum telo licet multum adhuc non novi. Et utroque modo potest habere consortem pugnam."

(“Clair impressed me. Her fighting abilities are on par with any other senior in one of the academies. Her semblance and her weapon are interesting though I have not seen much of it yet. Either way, I have partner that can fight.”)

“Quod est bonum audire. Per viam quando VGNB adepto a officium”

(“That is good to hear. By the way when will VGNB get a mission?”)

“Quaeram Ozpin circummunire instituit. ... Etiam Goodwitch te purgavit super genus pugnae pro hodie et sustulerunt reliquias fragmentorum vestri math opus. Suus ' in cubiculum tuum.”

(“I will ask Ozpin about it. Also…Goodwitch cleared you on your combat class for today and I picked up your math work. It’s in your room.”)

"Deo gratias. Gaudeo itinere cum cognovissent quia conprehensus est reversus est.“

(“Thanks. I’m glad though they understood that my trip back home was important.”)

A period of silence occurred for the two cousins until something ticked off into Vega’s mind. It was important info Sarina would like to know. The two had then arrived in front of the Math class; the two reclined on wall looking directly of the math class. If one was in the math class, they could faintly hear someone speaking outside

“Dixit mihi Thanilios SRD aliud quaerit quam petistis contactus membrorum familiae animae. Sed ista omnia alia Dei sui non patiuntur, putant esse remedium adhibere modum forte prospicere singularis animus. Ive'coepit nuper hodie. Quod omnis notitia habeo.“

(“Thanilios told me that SRD is trying something different in which they have asked several members of the family to contact their soul. It’s a different but since all Dei’s are afflicted by it, they think that perhaps the way to find a solution is to look into the individual soul. They’ve recently started today. That is all the information I have.”)

Sarina looked to her side and nodded at Vega. Hm…the individual soul. "Et tu ad Mathematica Class?”

(“So are you going to enter Mathematics Class?”)

"Nequaquam ita fiat, ut suus ' forsit iens ut primum exspectabo Gratia super caput meum et antequam Napoli deinde genus."

(“No, it’s probably going to be over soon so I will wait for Gratia and Napoli before I head to my next class.”)

The pair then went into small talk.

[Lugubrious]

Abel Fulgurate

Slow and steady was the gameplan today. Tuning out those around him and attuning his focus wholly to the math, Abel worked through the assignment with a stalwart precision, not as fast or as effective as others perhaps, but acceptable nonetheless. Whenever he hit a snag, he made sure to avoid becoming impatient, and would try a problem over from the beginning rather than trying to make work something he may have very well messed up. It was serving him decently well as the hour dragged on, but toward the latter half of instruction, his mental shield was breached by the sound of music, low now but increasing in volume by the minute. Abel cast an irritated glance around the room, frowning at the students in the area from where the music seemed to be emanating. He did not, however, spot a scroll, mPod, or any other device capable of playing such a tune. It was several more minutes, in fact, when the music had risen enough to almost completely demolish any semblance of productivity, that Abel realized that the music came not from within, but without.

”Come, come, come to me
I'm hanging by a single thread
Come to me and save my life
I can't love you when I'm dead

Not the least annoyed among the individuals in the class was Professor Fullbuster. After tweaking his mustache in consternation, he said to the class, “How strange. None of the other classes could be responsible for this. Someone must be outside the building.” He pressed a few buttons on his watch. By now, the beat of the projected song was beginning to shake the building itself. After his watch had been set to 'weapon' mode, Algernon Fullbuster made haste out of the class, leaving the door open. With nothing being said about staying put, a few of the more inquisitive students in the class abandoned their arithmetic to see what the fuss was about. At the forefront of this movement was an all-girl team, led by a speedy girl in red, and their curious eagerness broke the ice for some of the others to join the crowd heading out, Abel among them. Smoothing down his superb blue jacket, Abel hurried along, trying to resist the urge to put his hands over his ears. The source of the sound was leading the people toward the school's rear entrance, and as they grew nearer, it grew louder, enough to rattle the stately glass windows of Beacon.

[Lady Seraphina]

Sapphire Rode - Math Class and Beyond

As Professor Fullbuster exited the class to investigate the source of the music Sapphire took a look around the room. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of point in staying in the class. She'd finished her work, and without a teacher there seemed very little chance of very assigned more. Sapphire put the half finished schematic for the device she was working on in her binder before packing the rest of her things up and slinging her bag over her shoulder. "Oswald let's go check that out." she said motioning for him to join her.

Sapphire was not of course the only student to have this idea, there were several others bored with the prospect of math and more than willing to see what was causing the disturbance in classes. Chief among them an all girls team Sapphire didn't recognize and following swiftly behind was Abel. Sapphire followed out after them slipping to the front of the group so she could see what was going on as clearly as possible.

As they got closer and the sound of music became unbearable Sapphire pulled a pair of ear plugs out of her bag and pushed them into her ears. They weren't exactly perfect and she could still feel the beat of the obnoxiously loud music blasting in this part of the school but the plugs had been designed to block out gunshots during target practice and combat (even if Sapphire rarely used them thus) so she was spared the majority of the sound. As they got closer and closer Sapphire found herself eagerly anticipating whatever it was even if it was most likely a student prank.

[Flood]

Cobalt Chideta- Math Class-Outside

Cobalt was practically falling asleep when the music hit and Professor Fullbuster left the room. He saw everyone leaving, led by some all girl team. He recognized them from about a month ago before he transferred, they were battling some giant robot near his neighborhood. Strange, but not as strange as the music. He decided to get up and follow everyone to where the music was coming from.

He gathered up his stuff and left his work with his name on the teachers desk. Just because they were ditching didn't mean they couldn't turn in their work after all. He passed by Emerald's desk and looked at her. "Hey, wanna go check out that crazy music?" He asked as loudly as he could so he could be heard over said music.

[shadowkiller912]

Vega Venetia and Sarina Tala Dei

"Quod non insonuerit vox."

(“That does not sound right.”)

"Musica"

(“The music?”)

"Minaces verba et aedificare ad crepitantibus. Im 'iens ut reprehendo eam. Iam Fullbuster paucisque aliis studentibus . Is vires exsisto ludio ludius per fasciculum sed, ut facinore incredulus sum."

(“Ominous words and building is rattling to. I’m going to check it out. Fullbuster and a few other students already left. It might be a prank being played by a bunch of students but I’m skeptical.”)

With that Sarina headed off, looking back over her shoulder, “You should get Napoli and Gratia for this” making a brisk pace towards the source of the music.

Vega entered into the Math class, seeing other students. A scan around the room, she saw her teammates. She walked over to the aisle they were sitting at, “I’m back from my short trip back from the homeland. Let’s check out the source of this ominous music” Vega said to Gratia and Napoli.

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

Oswald Connolly- Critical Failure

Once again, Oswald found himself overwhelmed by the level of math that they were expected to do. This stuff looked like specialized knowledge, rather than part of a general knowledge base. He was a Huntsman, all he really did was slash things and help people. Sure, he could understand learning history, but math? Especially this level of math?! It was absurd.

So Oswald's mind did the most logical thing in the face of absurdity: shut down. His shoulder slumped, his eyes turned hollow and blank, and his mouth hung ever so slightly open in total confusion.

He stayed like that until he heard the music, and more importantly, Sapphire saying his name as she made her way out of the classroom, motioning for him to follow. More than happy to abandon this evil work, Oswald followed after her. As she pulled out a set of ear plugs, Oswald's eyebrow raised. I keep my ear protection in my locker with my other stuff. Damn school making us wear these uniforms instead of our combat gear. Though we do stink to high hell after a good fight, so...maybe that's not such a bad thing.

[Crimmy]

Gratia Mindaro - School Grounds

"I have better things to do," said the long-haired girl bluntly, packing her things into her satchel and flinging it across her body once more. "Who gives a shit about somebody with ass taste in music?"

Without nary another word, she stepped around her two erstwhile teammates, briskly walking out the door of the classroom before any of them could reply to her usual rudeness. There was business she had to attend to that trumped deigning herself to interact with the irksome remainder of Team VGNB, especially if they wanted to go distract themselves with some asswipe's loud, class-interrupting music. If she had been given a say in the cogwork of their teacher's minds, she would have much preferred to still be working on maths questions until they were to move to the next one rather than fucking around outside.

However, she didn't, so Gratia Mindaro was instead going to use this time to do something far more important.

Specifically, in order to welcome a new "B" member for Vignoble.

The Mistralese huntress' rapid pace soon found herself, once again, at the airship docks, watching as an ornithopter, dull black and grey, descended onto the landing strip. Winds blew at her face, sending her long, dark-brown hair flying back, but her impassive gaze never wavered as the noisy machine extended its exit ramp, dropping off a luggage-carrying figure who would serve as Team VGNB's replacement while Bianca was back in Mistral, dealing with family inheritance issues.

So, an otter faunus then. They had sent a faunus to replace a faunus.

Did they need a fucking token or something?

Gratia strode towards the newly-deposited Huntress as the ornithopter rose once more to leave, her footsteps powerful and measured. In her well-pressed Haven uniform, she seemed professional, fitting the mold of a greeter to new arrivals to Beacon Academy.

"Beryl Harken," she spoke, voice controlled as it crossed the distance between them, the girl having stopped mere metres away. "I assume you know you will be the fourth member of Team VGNB for the duration of your stay?"

[Ookawa]

A while later Skyra was still lying on the grass humming her merry tune. Her ears twitched at a sudden sound of footsteps from behind her. Swivelling her head around she spotted Moku behind her having her sword drawn, a bag of sweet smelling things beside her.
"Oi! Sit down or something. Relax and stuff. You seem very tense all the time. You need to chill a lot more, that's what I'm doing right now."
She smirked her lovely tomboy smirk and patted the grass next to her.
"Or are you afraid to get your butt dirty? You got a lovely butt, by the way." The smirk she had before got even broader and slightly playful.

[Eklispe]

Krysthane: Rude Interruption

Krysthane looked up irritably ready to chew out whoever was playing their music at such an abrasive level, she was this close to figuring out how to figure this last problem but that pesky noise had totally derailed her train of thought and now she was back to square one. However before she found the source the professor commented that the noise must be from outside the building. Rather than follow the crowd of students heading outward she decided she would look through one of the windows to find out if she could see anything, if not then she could just jump out of it and get a head start on finding the source.

[Plank Sinatra]

Lauren Negasi

Man, this crap was really killing her. While people like Gratia and Sangue burned through it, helping the fortune souls like Luke and Ben in their wakes, Lauren had long ago thrown the white flag, and sat up in her chair between Ben and Amy with her chin tucked down to her chest and music blaring in her ears. So one could imagine the shock evident on her face as she snapped to - surprisingly alert for someone who appeared so deeply unconscious - at the sound at the earthquake-esque bass of even louder music sending the windows rattling.

"W-Whatthecrap...?" she asked, stifling a yawn. The action of holding in the last vestiges of her nap, somehow, seemed to wake her up even more; the procession of kids filing out to investigate was practically like caffeine. Ben was closer to Sangue, but...

"C'mon, Desire!" Lauren vaulted over her table and wrapped her fingers around the Faunus girl's wrist. "Let's check this shit ouuuut!"

[Onarax]

Napoli Fiordilatte - Bailing

Wait when did boss leave?

When did she get back?

How did Gratia explode already?

In just a matter of seconds, these three questions, among many others, raced through Napoli's head. He had already resolved to stop paying attention in class, after all it's not like he was learning anything to begin with. He knew the basics of Calc, and being told to just do random problems sounded boring and pointless. Besides, Trig was far more useful, especially to him.

However that was neither here nor there, going off on tangents wasn't worth it.

Come on, that one was great.

Anyway, back to the situation at hand. There was weird music, Vega wanted to check it out, Gratia had ran away, and, well that about covered things. As for Napoli, well... the Mistral Hunter in Training wasn't all that interested.

"Sorry to burst your bubble Boss, but I'm gonna have to bail as well. Not keen on missing out on the chance to explore." Leaping down from his seat, Napoli decided to enlist another companion, and the one of choice was the faunus he had seen duking it out with Luke earlier. "Yo, you're Shiro right? My name's Napoli Fiordilatte, pleasure to meet you. I saw your fight, pretty sweet. I was hoping you could show me a few cool places around here, that weren't on the tour. Y'know, places to take a nap and stuff."

[Abillioncats]

Emerald Felicia - Math Class -

Emmy's face contorted as the music got louder and louder, when it got to the point where he was shaking the damn room Emmy woke up, letting out a startled meow. "Wh-What the hell is that!?" She yelled as she immediately covered her cat ears with her hands, her arms ineffectively trying to cover her human ones at the same time. If the people without animal ears thought it was unbearably loud, it was far worse for any Faunus that had did have them. Emerald was effectively irritated, she didn't not like being woken up like that.

On the bright side though it gave her an excuse to leave math class and follow the others to investigate the source of the music, and hopefully put a stop to it before she had permanent hearing loss. She ran after Oswald and the others as she kept her hands over her ears, she was starting to wonder if she should be trying to get away from the noise instead, as they got closer it was becoming almost unbearable for her, even while she covered her ears as tightly as she could.

"I hate this!" She tried to yell over the noise.

[Suku]

With the music seemingly getting louder the more she tried to block it out Cian decided to take a different approach for the matter and a with a single strike she decided to cut her loses as one could call it. Giving up on her math or any sense of taking notes she rather tried to focus on her semblance. With the familiar honeycombed pattern circling her she noticed that A her semblance did nothing to lower the volume and B there was probably no point in even bothering trying to deaden herself to the music. With a slight sight she let her semblance drop as she just gritted her teeth through the sound. "How are you holding up through this racket?" Cian decided to ask Luke.

[harinezumikouken]

Kuhaku Shiro - Mathematics Class ->

His head hurt. Shiro was huddled over his assignment, furrowed brow creased in intense focus. His teeth gritted as he struggled to make sense of the equations in front of him. It was a drastic leap, at least to him, coming from Signal. Sure, he did just fine with basic mathematical concepts but wasn't there supposed to be a gradual increase in difficulty? He felt as if he was just tossed to the sharks.

"This isn't AP Mathematics, is it?"
He hrmm'ed.
Sighing, he was just about to turn to Gren to ask for his friend's assistance when the music happened.

Looking up and around at the class he too, like Abel, attempted to pinpoint the source but he quickly discovered that the source of the music came from outside. At first, the sound didn't disturb Shiro. However, the volume quickly grew to increasing levels and Shiro found himself cringing in pain. The bass of the music didn't help his headache whatsoever. Shutting one eye, Shiro noticed that a few students to include the teacher got up to investigate and even leave the classroom. Poor Emerald, she and a few other faunus were in the same boat. At least, the ones with keener hearing.

"Aghhh!"
Pinning them back and flattening them, he cupped his gloved hands over his feline ears to maybe block out some of the sound.
It helped, but only some.
Looking out to the exit, he was curious to investigate the source of the noise too.
But if it was giving him this many problems, he could only imagine how it would be at the epicenter of the racket.

A lightbulb dinged! in his mind as he got an idea. A bright look on his face as his tail curled and coiled. He could use this chance to make it back to his dorm to put away his...'things'. Hide it behind some excuse to grab some ear protection before nosying around. Gathering his belongings, he tried his best to move quickly and block out the cacophony. Just as he was getting up to leave, he halted in his tracks as some handsome blond gentleman approached him. Hands cupping his silvery-white ears, he frowned as he tilted his head. The gentleman looked familiar, but he couldn't quite place who he was exactly. The young man was speaking to him, and although his voice was muffled and drowned out partially by what sounded like music, Shiro caught enough of what was said.

"OH, UHH...HI! NICE TO MEET YOU..."
What did he say his name was?
"RAVIOLI FORD LATTE?"
Close enough.
The gentleman made some comment about Shiro's sparring match.
"THANKS, I GUESS? LOOK, I CAN'T REALLY HEAR VERY WELL RIGHT NOW. I'M GONNA RUN BACK TO MY ROOM AND GET SOME HEARING PROTECTION OR SOMETHING. ONCE I HAVE MY HEARING BACK, WE CAN CONTINUE TALKING. SEE YOU AROUND! " Shiro said, rather loudly. Trying to have his voice heard above the din. Just in case the gentleman couldn't quite hear him, Shiro pointed a finger at his furry ears. Hoping that would get the message across clearly. To any regular human, the music probably sounded like some concert that was taking place off in the distance. But to Shiro and his kin, the noise was killer. "BYE!" he briefly waved at the blond.

Shiro turned to Gren and tapped his shoulder, gave an absent nod, and bounced. Taking advantage of the situation to take care of some personal business. He didn't have it in him to burst down the hallways on all fours, so he continued onward with a sort of brisk powerwalk/jog. His bag and his combined weapons in their 'Transport' mode slung on his back. His gloved hands still cupped over his head, Shiro noticed other students and faculty members moving past him towards the commotion. His curiosity nagged at him as he looked over his shoulder.

"Gotta hurry so I can see what's up." He thought as he faced forward.

[Forsythe]

Well, as far as distractions went, this certainly done the trick. So much so that een the teacher disappeared to investigate. After a brief moment of wondering who needed the school half-vacated and what were they going to try to steal while that was happening, she shrugged and followed the crowd out. Might as well see herself.

Catching up with the rest of the team, she chuckled at Emerald's problem and reached up, putting her padded hat over the faunus' ears to help muffle the noise. "Anybody seeing where it comes from so I can bust it?" she looked at the cat faunus suspiciously for a while there, "You know, sound is just vibrations of air, are we sure this isn't a product of someone with, say, wind semblance being too bored?"

[Flood]

Cobalt Chideta-Hallways

Cobalt sighed as Emerald completely ignored him. He was starting to get really annoyed by his teammates just completely blowing him off. 'I think I need to have a talk with them tonight.' He thought to himself as he pulled out some earplugs from his pocket. Preparation was key in any situation.

He left the room and walked through the hallways towards where the noise was coming from. He put on his best scary face to make people move out of his way as he looked around. Cobalt then had a thought. 'Maybe they'll cancel the rest of the classes today too. That would be a good opportunity to get to know my teammates. Which reminds me...' He stopped and headed back to the classroom which was now emptied. He grabbed the paper airplane from earlier from the trash and quickly uncrumpled it.

It had a big hole through the middle, but he got the general gist of the conversation. It was hurtful, but honest. "I am beginning to regret coming here." Cobalt said quietly as he threw the paper back into the trash. He walked out of the classroom and walked towards the noise with many thoughts on his mind.

[Abillioncats]

Emerald Felicia - Math Class -

Emmy felt some relief when Diamond's hat covered her ears, it was doing a far better job than her hands. She found her hands covering her human ears instead, the noise was still annoying, but now at least it didn't feel like she was going to pass out from the noise.

Diamond was saying something to her, but she could not hear a thing she was saying whatsoever. She looked at Diamond with confusion, trying her best to read her lips.

"What was that?!" She yelled, "I can't understand Diamond! It's too loud!" her face made a frown. "Why are you looking at me like that!? I didn't do this! My semblance is controlling the wind! I can't make music!"

[HereComesTheSnow]

Luke Schwarz -- Good Question

"Well," he said simply, putting down his pencil and rubbing his temples as his head vibrated in tune with the bass. "First I'll tell you that you're making a lot of assumptions, Cian."

Watching with one half-lidded, particularly non-enthused gray eye as he continued to try and massage his head, he followed the aforementioned pencil on it's vibration-driven path down the desk, and off to the floor. At this point, a certain thought couldn't help but occur.

Did she even hear me?

Only one way to make sure: Once more, with feeling!

"Only barely, to be honest!" he loudly replied, leaning in closer. "And that's after my little little sister's been waking me up by playing her saxophone in my ear for the past couple of years first thing in the morning!"

While my big little sister puts me in a leglock, or something, to boot...

Glancing around the room, he continued with a plan of action.

"Looks like a bunch of people are going check it out, me included! You going to go too?"

Because if one thing was for sure, he certainly did. If push came to shove, they could go back over notes in the dorm, especially now that he'd gotten a practical cheatsheet from Gratia.

Bless the concept of raising flags.

Friendship flags, of course. Those existed, right?

He hadn't actually played many VNs in his time. Heresy, I know.

[Sho Minazuki]

Jack Orpheus | Math Class

Jack slowly heaved from his sleep as he yawned... Or would, if it wasn't for him covering his ears. Definitely wasn't Luke waking him up, the hell was this? He was having such a nice dream too. His vision returned to him as he sat upright and looked around covering his ears.

"The hell...", some music was blaring, it wasn't to his taste either so that made it worse. It seems some students were using this as an excuse to skip class and 'check' on the noise. He noticed Luke had proposed such a plan... Or not really, he probably just wanted to sincerely check. Maybe he should too. He was kind of curious where this was coming from.

"Well I'm not staying in this classroom any longer, let's go", he yelled while leaning in closer to Luke and Cian, before vaulting out of his chair sweeping his workbook and stationary up as he did so, catching it in his bag and soaring over several students before landing at the door and dashing out.