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Like Kiyoshi, Tori was heading to ehr dorm room. She was still covered in soil and dirt from her time spent in the garden. "I can't believe I spent all that time in there... it was so calming..." she mused to herself as she walked. However, she felt like there was something missing. A lonely feeling settled over her heart and shadows danced in her mind's eye.

"I never get to see what those shadows look like..." she sighed, shaking her head. That was all her little "visions" were; shadows in the shape of people whispering to her in a language she didn't understand. However, the shadows did give her the feeling that she did belong somewhere - with people who liked her for who she was on the inside, people who were more like her than everyone she had ever encountered before.

[I will make Jun an actual char now that i think of it biggrin ]


Alice sighed a little. There goes one chance at getting a cute guy drunk, but giving up was not an option. As he began to head back up to his dorm, a guy caught his attention whom was in the hallway. Jun was his guy's name, Alice was pretty sure, he apparently responded when he called it out. Jun wasn't exactly a strong type, and yet wasn't weak either. He was quite good at medical interests too. It seemed that for alot of people, he was the one to go to when they didn't like the nurse, or couldn't go see the nurse in their condition. If he was one of the Greek gods, he'd be a semi-god like he was, or...was chosen as, but Jun would be Asclepius, the god of healing. Alice didn't really have to say much before Jun asked him if maybe he wanted to go somewhere for a drink. Score. Alice smiled and agreed, stating that he had some wine up in his dorm and once the wine was gotten along with two accompanying glasses, they could go anywhere on campus Jun wanted to go. So off they went to Alice's room, and once the glasses and wine was gotten, Jun decided that the flower gardens would be a nice place for wine, since it was about midday now. Once they arrived in the gardens, Jun took off his jacket and laid it on the ground, a hand movement asking Alice to sit. Well that was nice, Alice thought as he did take Jun's offer and sat on the jacket. Red wine was poured and the glasses were clinked in a toast of a decent school year before they began to sip at wine and talk away.

"Weapons...?" Juri looked wide eyed at her friend. She was a very non violent girl. Her wielding a weapon seemed to be out of the question. But...
"I take karate and kick boxing lessons on the weekend," Juri confessed in a low tone. "And my friend's been teaching me how to use fighting fans and a whip for the longest time. I do it just to humor him...but if this is real...if this is serious, then it might come in handy." She sighed. "What about you?"

In answer, Hikari lifted her skirt slightly, just enough to show a leather sheath strapped to her hip that she could reach easily. It was a concealed knife with a blade no longer than an index finger. "That should do fine. I've got four more hidden away. Besides..." She pointed to the long package wrapped in cloth strapped to her bag. "I've got a blunt practice sword for fencing. You also forget that I can run whenever I don't quite feel like fighting." Hikari smiled slightly, "I'll be fine, but I'm still concerned. I haven't seen your fighting style. I'm not doubting you, just concerned, that's all..."

"Of course not. It's not by a power of our decision, but fate. However, there are two destinies and an equal chance to fulfill either one..." Hikari sighed, "My grandmother is what you might call a fortune teller. She's dead accurate, and I have some of her blood with prophecy. That's also how I am linked to Apollo, Kenji as you know him, because he is the one who grants the gift or curse on people. I have a bad feeling about this war... war is never good. You know, I might--"

Hikari suddenly jerked her head up and pulled Juri to one side. An arrow, a plain wooden one with a stub tip and plastic fletching for practice, landed where their feet were. A knife and sword came out like a flash as Hikari vanished into the trees where the arrow originated.

A few moments later, she emerged, shaking her head. "Lost him, or her... or it. Seems the Titans might already know how to use their powers, if it were the Titans."

She plucked the arrow from the soil as she sheathed her knife and returned her fencing sword into its scabbard. "Nothing written on here, no messages, just an arrow... I think we should keep this for evidence."

There was no answer from Hikari. She stood still, leaning against the wall, asleep. The day's events had taken a heavy toll on her mentally as well as physically. As a child, she often ran around in aimless circles for hours, driving her parents nuts, then suddenly drop, curl up and fall asleep. Things haven't changed much. Sleeping standing up is said to be a feat achieved by only soldiers and people who have no life and practice it. It was possibly one of her only useful natural talents besides being a good luck charm.

After more talking, Jun and Alice eventually did actually get up and part their ways. Alice sighed, quite satisfied with how the afternoon went. As he was heading back up to his dorm to clean the glasses, he spotted Tori on Kiyoshi, both on the floor and...covered in soil? Tori must have been in the gardens earlier since there was no other dirt that colour.

"Are...you guys ok?"

He stopped next to them, still holding his two wine glasses and still half full wine bottle, and it wasn't the cheap stuff either. Cheap wine was disgusting and was a waste of money, because if your going to buy wine, as least by the good kind so as to really appreciate it when you drink it, or, in the case earlier, share in a drink.

[XD]

"There's no need to say sorry, i'm just asking if your ok. Niether one of you are in a concussion or anything are you?"

He looked them over again.

"It doesn't seem like it. If this is the way that guys and girls hook up...well dispite how odd it is, everything is better with wine."

He'd never been with a girl, nor did he like then in such manners of course, and really, this was his first time around the opposite sex in more than 12 years that he could remember.