Mixtape Ghost NLocation: Meeting room
Interacting with: Loki mostly, but everyone a little bit
Interacting with: Loki mostly, but everyone a little bit
All in all, Dani had to confess that revealing what her power was to the others in the group had gone better than she had expected. While it didn’t seem that anyone was necessarily happy about the fact that she could read their minds, no one seemed to be acting on those feelings. Perhaps their subdued reaction was just because of the fact that they were a more understanding bunch due to their own strange and wonderful abilities, but whatever the reason, Dani was rather glad for it.
Dani was pulled from her content reflection on the way things were going when the brown-haired girl who had been nibbling on a Pop-Tart earlier stood up and introduced herself as Grace/Typhoon before walking into the range. Once behind the blast door, she spread out her large wings and beat them to launch herself into the air. Though it wasn’t really possible to see what she did next, the thumping noises emanating from the window and the way her clothes whipped violently around her frame indicated that it probably had something to do with manipulating the air.
The man wearing the dark grey shirt suddenly stated that his name was Raylan/Cataclysm once Grace had confidently returned to her seat, though it seemed that he didn’t really want to be there at all. After a look from Professor Latour, he stood up and looked over at the dent Taylor had left in the wall earlier, popping it back out before he stalked into the range. Despite her best efforts, Dani couldn’t help but flinch a little as he passed by her. The anger she had felt from him when she revealed her ability just a few minutes before had been... frightening, if she was being honest with herself, and the fact that it had been directed at her made her a little afraid to be around him.
As Dani watched, Raylan picked up a couple of metal spheres before making them float off to the side while he sipped at the drink in his hand. In the time that it took her to blink, one of the spheres was gone, the distinct clang of metal striking metal audible from the range. An instant later, the second orb followed its twin to the other end of the range, its collision with the wall marked by the same sound as the first.
Several moments later, Raylan returned from the range with the scrap from the two orbs in his hands. Unfortunately, Dani couldn’t help but flinch again as he walked by her on the way to his own chair and set his cup down, focusing on the metal pieces between his hands. The sound of metal pieces scraping against one another and smashing together filled the air as he focused on whatever it was he was doing. Once he was done, he held out the combined metal orb for everyone to see, explaining that he had the power to manipulate magnetic fields.
The next person to go was the boy with glasses that had held his mug in front of him without using his hands upon arriving earlier. He introduced himself as Casey Locke, though he muttered something about everyone getting their laughs in before he stated that his codename was Accelerator. He explained that his power was the ability to control something called vectors, though Dani had no idea what that meant. Although, from his demonstration, which consisted of throwing a huge slab of material at the far wall of the range and surrounding himself with the scrap and his mug, Dani felt that it was safe to consider it a more technical version of telekinesis.
After Casey had finished, the boy who had arrived in a hoodie and athletic shorts that thought most of them would be easy to break in half took his turn, introducing himself as Bao Lu/Wind Dancer. As it turned out, he also had the ability to control the air, which he demonstrated by jumping up to the ceiling. Apart from that, he seemed rather arrogant, explaining that he could beat probably everyone else in the room. Dani, of course, wasn’t going to contest that.
The girl who had been sitting quietly next to the professor ever since Dani had arrived was the final person to show off her powers, though she seemed as reluctant to do so as Raylan had been. She introduced herself as Sophie Blackthorn/Pyro, prompting a strange spike of fear in Loki, before she walked into the range to demonstrate her power by lighting the whole range on fire. Dani, however, was only vaguely aware of what was going on inside the range as the sudden surge of terror coming from Loki hit her like a truck.
Though Dani did her best to both prevent his fear from making her afraid and prevent her own emotions from leaking to the others in the room, it was fairly clear to anyone that looked that she wasn’t really succeeding at either as she curled up on her chair by hugging her knees to her chest. When she began feeling dizzy and weak, she pressed her forehead against her legs and clamped her eyes shut while she tried to slow her racing heart and take deeper, slower breaths.
While Dani was normally quite content to suffer in silence, she really, really didn’t want to risk having her emotions influence the emotions of the other students and end up creating a feedback loop of sorts. ”Please calm down!” Dani cried out mentally to Loki. ”The fire’s gone! You’re safe!” Fortunately, a few students also seemed to be trying to calm Loki down. Dani could only hope that their efforts would see some success soon, as she wasn’t exactly confident that she would be able to contain her emotions for very much longer.