Dark Eternity

X-Men: The Grinder Chronicles

The students took their lap around the field. It was rather large, so many were getting out of breath along the way, but this seemed to be the plan. The quickest ones that were not running with super-speed were asked to take another lap. Michelle, who was rather quick on her feet, but still in poor condition, seen that large parts of her grey tank top were darker by the end of her run, grabbed a clipboard with a list. She went through that list and ticked off the attendance of students, getting quick to know people's faces and names. Beatrice and Johnathan were quick on their feet to take their two laps while Michelle spoke to the students, which she gathered once everyone was finished.

"Hi, euhm...", she hesitated a moment as she scribbled something down at the list. "Well, yeah. Hi again. For those that did not listen up before their warm-up, I am Michelle Jameson. I will be student assistant to Mister Froggers and Miss Letterman. That means I will participate in the activities in the Power Training course, assist you guys in whatever way I can and I will be the person to speak to, should you feel uncomfortable to talk to the teachers." She took a quick look around the gathered students once more. "As you might know, some of you guys have physical abilities. Those should have it easy to learn in this course, as your abilities mostly rely on your physical prowess."

Corporal Froggers and Beatrice slowly stopped next to Michelle. The Corporal gave the girl a clap on the shoulder. "Those that have mental abilities and some more... extraordinary powers... You might have trouble getting the right training in this, but that's why we try and keep enough professors and teachers interested in participating. As for today, Johnathan would keep things easy..." The Corporal smirked like he just played a prank at someone. "... and go through some sports activities. Miss Letterman and I will try and start with the actual Power Training."

"Alright guys, you take another turn with me, let the girls have the fun first." The Corporal dashed off and clapped his hands in order to get even the laziest of the men to get up. Beatrice and Michelle gathered the girls and started training with them. Some more peculiar powers were shown, when a few of the shy girls were posing. One of the girls could grow flowers on her body, another was able to create ice out of nowhere and even encase her body with a layer of it that she could easily move in. Either were they training with the two teachers or grouped together on their own and showed off what they could do. Michelle turned to Artemis when it was her turn (more or less). "Hey, Artemis. Show me what you got."

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Well, I posted up the opening for the Power Training. You can wrap up the day's event and start off on Thursday or I edit the Timeskip aside for now.

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Michelle shook Artemis' hand and smiled. "Pleasure to meet you. I am Jackhammer." The arm that rested on the girl's shoulder remained there, even daring to pull Artemis' closer to the mutant. The students that were listening in on David were cheering him, agreeing with the fact that the humans were trying to justify disposing the mutants. A guy that heard Sumat's speech against this wanted to discuss things with the lizard mutant in a more physical manner, but a fellow student stopped him, telling him that Sumat was the Raja Naga, the famous mutant wrestler. It silenced and cooled down the fellow student down instantly.

-----Thursday: Mutant Power Training-----

After the warm-up, the teacher blew a whistle and directed all back to the front side of the sport's field. The group of students in the course were large but enough for three people to have the overview of things. "So you guys signed in on the Power Training at...", Johnathan Froggers looked at his wristwatch. "9am. I am Corporal Johnathan Froggers, you can just call me Corporal or John. I will coach most of the training, warm-up and sports routine for the day. Beatrice over here...", he motioned over at the redhead in a Grinder sports uniform. Beatrice Letterman liked to play along with the girl's volleyball team and showed that with her sportive figure. "... and this year's student assistant, Miss Jameson..." Michelle waved her hand, wearing jogging shorts and a grey tank-top. "...are both going to work around helping develop your abilities as we go through the day. So with that, let's make a run around the field. Five turns should be enough." He chuckled at the last remark, getting nudged by Beatrice. "Alright guys, one turn for the start", Michelle barked and made haste to get her round around the field done.

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I suppose that you are ready for the timeskip...

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Michelle smiled, eyeing the bow a little while until Artemis returned. She chirped a moment at the girl's comments and then looked at the professors handing out IDs. "What's the fuzz about?", she asked, leaning closer to Artemis. Her eyes turned back to the bow, to which point she laid an arm on Artemis' shoulders. "So you are more of a country-type of girl. Don't worry, your friends here will show you around." She winked at the two guys. She remained fairly close to Artemis and listened in on their talk for a little longer.

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In the meantime, most students have seen the videos that have spread over the campus and the interview turned the one or two confused faces. A few began to support what Lewis was offering. Others were blaming him for making their lives harder. It was all a cluster of different opinions. Nevertheless, all was halted when something new showed up.

Students switched TVs to a news channel, others had tablets and phones up with streams. It spread like a wildfire amongst the students to watch the live footage of a mutant going rampage.

The news helicopter keeps the scene in perfect view. There were multiple police cars swarmed around a supermarket, lights illuminating the large building from all sides. At the entrance, there were people unconscious, glass scattered, chaos was ensured. The anchorman explained the situation.

"After the events at Highsands Mutant College of Liberty and Equality, the people are still not safe in the streets. Violence against humans seems to rise. Mutants seem to attack people that openly encourage the Mutant Registration Act. This particular event here was created, when a cashier of the supermarket at ... asked for the ID of a customer that turned out to be a mutant. The mutant Samuel Eddison outraged at this and attacked the woman, resulting in what we seem to think of a massacre inside the supermarket. Witnesses called the police immediately and..."

There was an explosion in the building, which visibly shook the walls and roof of it. Policemen took cover behind their cars and then some charge for the entrance. Once they were inside, another explosion was heard and the officers were thrown out of the building with force. This scene remained a few minutes, before an armored van pulls up to the police cars and three people in black special operative clothing barged out and ran inside. After a series of loud explosion sounds and some silence, the three return into view with a young man between them. He was handcuffed and a collar was placed around his neck that blinked with blue lights, as he was dragged to the van.

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Students watched this with fear. Their eyes told the truth. They were visibly afraid of what happened there, whether it was the alleged massacre or the fact that three men just walked in and took down a mutant easily. Also the way how Samuel looked like. He was beaten unconscious and the blinking collar around his neck looked menacing. Whispering spread amongst the students.

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The chaos of the first days of college. The best time to vent off some steam by pushing students. Michelle walked through the stuffed hallways, "gently" giving those in her way a push to the side. Of course she made sure that people knew who they were messing with, should they have the balls to call against her then.

She passed Leopold and Julian, giving a light tap on Julian's shoulder that was having enough of a push as if she would have shoved the girl aside. Chuckling happily, the girl greeted the professor with a wave. "Ohaio, Mister Oromake. Enjoying your day?" She did not pay too much attention to a response and made her way through the corridors. She wore some clean, non-ripped jeans and her shirt was fitting her fine, unlike the loose shirts she wore usually. Of course, she would not wear her current outfit if it weren't for Victoria's little inception to take a better look at herself.

Ending up in the rec room of the dorms, the girl slumped down on a chair close to Alex and the group, grunting at the sight of the series running. "Who turned that crap on?", she sighed and looked for the remote. Her eyes ended up catching a glimpse of a bow and she forgot the TV altogether. "Oh hey, sweet cheeks, is that yours?" She got up to get a better look at it.

X-Men: The Grinder Chronicles

@WanderingSpirit and @BranchOfSin, both of you would need to update as to whether you are around or not.

Apart from that, I'll toss in my character a little.

Speaking of my character, is Artemis having a roommate? Daisy? Julian? One of those three will have Michelle as roommate.

X-Men: The Grinder Chronicles

So, to explain the timeskip thing. You can post as much as you want and mingle with your characters a little. I just wanted to mention that my next post (whenever you guys are ready) will be a timeskip over to the first Thursday that Power Training will take place.

As for roommates, I added Christian Loyd to the character list as Trey's roommate. Is any character missing a roommate? For the girls, the possibility is that they end up with Michelle in a room. She tends to scare off her roommates and they switch rooms over the semester.

Apart from that, make sure that your character is approached by a professor for their new MutRegAct-friendly IDs. That can be a one-liner or so within your post, just want to see what your character would think of it :)

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Trey Abidemi's roommate (played by King Kindred):

Name: Christian Lloyd
Alias: The Blur
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual
Appearance:
Christian stands at approximately six feet even. He usually wears a graphic t-shirt or a simple wife beater and jeans. He also usually carries a backpack around that's filled with snacks for him to eat. When he doesn't have his backpack you can guarantee that his pants have something for him to snack on.
Powers: Super Speed: Christian's mutant ability revolves around speed. He can run at insane speeds and his current average is mach 2. He still has room for improvement and it's possible for him to run faster in moments of stress or increased adrenaline. His power over speed provides him with different things. His wounds heal much faster than a normal human, but slower than a mutant whose power is strictly regeneration. He's sure he can't regrow limbs, but isn't sure if he could re-attach them. He honestly doesn't even want to find out.

Christian's speed would be deadly for him if he wasn't able to react to things at his speed. This doesn't mean he can't be caught off-guard, because he can. He also can adapt to g-force. He also has an accelerated thought process allowing him to essentially think faster than normal people and other mutants.

At the moment he can't vibrate his molecules through solid objects. He also has an increased metabolism that requires him to eat all the time to sustain his energy. The more energy that he uses the slower he gets until he recharges again.
Bio: Christian had a normal life. He didn't start gaining his powers until his twelfth birthday and even then he could hide his powers pretty well. Even before he had his powers he had a habit of always arriving somewhere late. People tended to call him out on that and even gave him nicknames surrounding it. It didn't really bother him though.

Puberty hit Christian like a truck of awesome. He was at the mall with some friends his Freshman year of High School and he was approached by some agent for some modeling agency that saw potential in him. At first he thought it was some scam to get his money, but he realized that he actually looked really good and people took note of it. Even before then he never had problems finding someone to date. He accepted the agent's offer and became a teen model.

He modeled all four years of High School and decided that if he was going to go to College he was going to end up doing it somewhere like the Grinder. Maybe he could fully come out as a mutant while he's there. The first bisexual mutant model. Boy would tumblr break from the news.

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If everyone is fine with it, I'll move onto the first Thursday for Power Training in my next post. Once again, if your characters need roommates, tell me and I'll try and arrange things, or toss you together :)

EDIT:
Also decided to make @King Kindred the Co-GM for now. He has the right to accept characters when I am not available and should I be gone for a long time, he is allowed to keep the story flowing with NPCs etc.etc.etc.

If you don't feel up for the task, then you are even more fit for it... Just kidding, then I'll have to consider someone else as Co-GM.