Midna-Phobia

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“Five.” Kaya said without a hesitation or looking up from her food. “About a month after the incident you’re thinking of you tried the exact same thing with exactly the same results.” She looked up at him with a cheeky grin and laughed softly to herself. “And, of course I assume we’re not counting that time about a month or so ago when you overloaded the power grid and we didn’t have power for twelve hours… well except for the stuff you powered up for us.” She said with a small giggle. Still, despite everything she’d never really had to worry about him too much. Of course it was always frightening, terrifying even when his powers backfired on him or didn’t do what he wanted and he got hurt. But his mother had always been able to patch him right up; her powers had mostly been used to repair damages he may have caused. Personally Kaya liked Bryant’s mum, she had always been really nice to her and she had never felt unwelcome in the home. She was also fascinated with her powers, though she had always likened it to a type of bio alchemy at least in her mind, not really up to saying it to the woman’s face out of respect for her. She knew if it had been her she wouldn’t like to have her powers compared to something else.

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When Kyle said that he was glad she was okay Grace smiled again and then just stood there for what felt like a long time, just looking at him. He was, at least to her, a curious person. He had been so nice to her all this time despite her shyness and lack of confidence. Heck he seemed to have more confidence in her than she did. She wondered where it all came from and why he was so much more confident than she was. However her ponderings were interrupted by a shout from Mr Steele. Oddly enough he didn’t seem like a teacher she’d be approaching much with her problems. Turning back to Kyle Grace smiled happily and nodded. “We shall.” She replied happily as they headed for the exit to the gym. “Did you want me to walk you to your next class? Whatever that is?” Glancing down at her own schedule Grace noted she had a creative arts class. She remembered during the induction period she’d been allowed to select electives and perhaps flooded her schedule with arts classes. There were of course standard classes that everyone had to take, but there were only four of them. She actually found herself looking forward to the next class. It may seem contradictory to her nature but Grace loved expressing herself through things like dancing or singing or painting. Photography was a favourite hobby of hers. It was just the expressing herself in front of others she had troubles with because, true to her nature, she got horrible cases of stage fright whenever people saw her.

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Kaya shrugged carelessly at the comment. “I guess if you’re planning on going down the super hero road then it’s not like you’re going to need math r science anyway.” She spoke honestly. It was something that had always annoyed her a little bit about school. They were so focused about shoving useless information into your head they never bothered to make time to teach you any truly valuable life skills. Well they did sometimes, but they were usually electives. Bryant spoke again, catching her attention and the girl pouted slightly before punching him gently in the arm. “Will you just be careful this time? I’m still not good with the medical side of alchemy. I get worried when I have to put you back together.” She pouted and returned to her food. Bryant had so many different challenges to face than she did. She wasn’t sure she would have been able to use her powers at all if there hadn't been books and texts to learn from and her father to guide her. He had to make everything up as he went along and, a lot of the time he had gotten hurt in the process. It worried her. What would happen if one day one of his powers backfired and his heart stopped? What would she do without him?

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I LOVE infamous <3 You'll find no arguments here ^_^ Kaya's powers are pretty much FullMetal anyway so I can't say anything I suppose haha.

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Kaya smiled and laughed softly at Bryant’s distaste for the school lunches. “Yeah... sorry I haven’t figured out how to transmute food yet. There’s not a lot of research on it strangely enough. So I’ve had to go back to scratch and start over. Though I haven’t really managed to get past changing it back into its original ingredients.” And even that had taken her a good year or two. Once she got into the line Kaya quickly collected her food and made her way to a table. “Could you just imagine if I wasn’t bound by equivalent exchange?” The girl mused as they sat down. “Think of all the puddings I could make!” She giggled softly, bypassing the main meal in favour for desert. “It hasn’t been too bad. I think I’d be enjoying it more if I weren’t so tired.” She yawned, almost as if to accentuate her point. “I’m just lucky it’s the first day back and all we’re doing is revising, admin stuff and maybe some group activities.” She yawned again. As it was she’d been dozing off most of the morning, chunks of time passing without her even realising. “I’m lucky I’ve already had most of these teachers before. They’d probably think I’m a slacker who doesn’t take the class seriously otherwise. What about you?”

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“Hmm?” Looking down at her hand at his question she quickly held up both her hands, shaking her head slightly. “Oh no. Not at all. I went to touch you before, but I felt the heat radiating before I made contact. I’m fine really.” She assured him, smiling again. She found it very interesting that way he described his powers. It reminded her of her mother in a way and the thought made her feel just that little bit more comfortable, a little bit closer to him. They’d theorised that perhaps elemental powers were shaped by the human they inhabited. But perhaps they’d had it the wrong way. What if the human was shaped by the element they used? “You don’t need to apologise.” She assured him with another gentle smile. “If it weren’t for you she’d probably still be bothering me, so it’s fine. It’s… kind of nice really.” She felt a little bad saying that she was happy he’d gotten mad over someone bothering her and momentarily lapsed out of control, even just slightly. Although it wasn’t something she’d experienced herself, since her powers more involved having to use energy to manipulate water rather than having it constantly present.

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Grace looked up very slightly at the intervention of Kyle, her gaze slightly curious amongst the other emotions overwhelming her. At the other girl’s words she looked back down. The other girl smiled slightly at the boy’s words and tossed her hair slightly with a smirk and a small scoff. “Cool your jets hot stuff, I was just teasing.” She said carelessly as she turned and walked away, joining a group of other very tall and attractive looking girls whom she began laughing with as if the whole encounter with the pair had never happened. Grace slowly looked away from them and then back to Kyle with a small smile. She reached out to touch him for a moment, before feeling the heat radiating off his body and quickly retracted her hand, holding it gently. “Thank you.” She said gently, looking at him with another small smile as she wiped away the small tears that had formed in her eyes. “You didn’t have to… but I’m glad you did. Sometimes it feels like everyone can sense my nervousness. I’m like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti. The bullies just seem to smell me coming from a mile away.” She actually laughed softly and seemed to have calmed down and mostly gotten over her nervousness from before. “I’ll try not to be a burden like that in the future.” She promised. “Do you always get all hot when you get mad?” Grace asked curiously, remembering how he’d been practically radiating heat. No doubt if she’d touched him she would have burnt herself.

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Probably, but I feel like using powers on other students would be frowned upon. She's mostly concerned about it escalating to a major fight.

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I'd say both. I don't have any specific plans for her so go for it :)

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Kaya was about to step out of the locker when she heard Bryant shout and quickly stepped back, watching as bolts of electricity coursed past her and she heard the other two cry out in pain. Stepping out she looked to them and then back to her friend before she hopped out of the locker and walked back towards him, smiling a little. “Thanks.” She said softly, deciding to walk beside him for safety in case those two decided to retaliate. It wasn’t often, but every now and then when the four of them had issues it would result in a full out fight, usually between Bryant and Cody. “I still don’t think you should do that though. You’re gonna get detention again if someone catches you using your powers in the halls against other students. That and it doesn’t seem to really bother them. They haven’t stopped after three years.” She was also worried that one day he may seriously hurt someone, be it them or himself. “But thanks all the same.” They made their way into the cafeteria without any further incidents; luckily Cody and Ashley didn’t seem in the mood for a proper fight. It was early days, they were testing the water she supposed. Kaya didn’t look forward to the day all four of them were put on separate sides during gym when powers were allowed to be used. She knew she’d be useless to Bryant in a fight. As they lined up for lunch though all thoughts of the other two disappeared from her mind. “Oh look! Pudding!” The girl explained happily as they got into line. Kaya couldn’t help it. Despite her disciplined and structured approach to life she had the biggest weakness for sweet things. Anyone who knew her well knew she’d even drop her alchemy studying for desert.