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Well, its the weekend here at MHS. Wouldn't it be great if all schools started on a Friday for the first day of school. What a way to start off. You get a weekend right after your first day. Well, this is because we are done with the first day of class. How so you ask. As you only went to one class. yes, but I am sure that doing the same thing for each class would get boring. So the one class you experienced is basically how all the classes are going to be.
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Several miles from Manga High School, at an altitude of 7000 feet...
Danet Sturmer stood on the bow of the airship "Jetstream", staring into the distance as the wind whipped his vest about. He merely stared into the distance, as there wasn't much to do at the moment; besides, he was just about to leave the crew for the first time in his life.
He looked into the distance, realizing, as one often does, the sheer beauty of something one has taken for granted and is about to lose. The feeling of flight, the wind whipping around him, the silvery clouds that floated around him in concert: they were a part of his life just as much as eating and sleeping.
He was a bit fearful, although mostly excited. He would have a chance to tame the strange new abilities he'd discovered, and maybe find out a bit about their source. He honestly didn't care much where his strange abilities had come from; he was just glad to have them. Part of being an airship pirate was not to question what you did, as the answers would sometimes be things you wish you hadn't known. They were pirates after all, thieves and murderers both.
"Prepare to descend!" a loud voice echoed from behind him, and moments later the airship began to lower.
The Jetstream was a beautiful airship, one of only three pirate airships in the world. It looked much like a ship one would find at see, only much longer and not nearly as deep. Giant rotors turned overhead, holding the ship up as sets of long wings with smaller jet engines and rudders controlled its motion. The name of the ship was emblazoned in black on the left side of its bow, and a large, rather lude painting of a woman in a swimsuit, done by several of the crew's amateur artists, adorned the other side.
It was going to be a fine day. Dan loved going to land, primarily because that's where the booze and hookers were. You couldn't get those things on a ship. Also, they had shops at which the Jetstream resupplied, but Dan didn't know much else besides that about what went on on land.
Airships were remarkably insulated from the world around them. Sure, a few pirates made an effort to get news whenever they were on land, and find out about the state of affairs in the world, but most of the crew didn't even pay attention to what the "landlubbers" did; their world consisted of the airship, and the airship only. This was especially true for Dan, who had grown up on the airship, and had never known another life.
He had no idea what landlubbers did, or what customs they had, or why they stayed on land when they could be airship pirates. He'd met a few here and there, mostly barkeeps and prostitutes, neither of which he really conversed with. He was a man of the sky to the bone, something that made him slightly nervous at the prospect of spending two whole years on land. He didn't want to give up his life here in the sky, on the Jetstream. The Cap'n insisted that he go, however, and no one could argue with him. The last person to do so had been a potential mutineer who was thrown overboard somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
Dan sighed and turned around, plodding slowly toward the airship's control room, located near the middle of the ship, slightly toward the bow. He had stowed his belongings there for the time being, packed and ready to go. They would be within sight of the school soon, and it would be time to say his final goodbyes and take his exosuit down to the ground. At least he would have it to console him; while its flight capabilities were nothing like the grand Jetstream, the exosuit would at least allow him to get into the air during his time at school.
He pulled open the gray steel door and entered the large room. The airship's control room looked like something out of a science fiction film. With monitors all around, banks of glowing switches and dials, and a huge screen at the front of the room, any fictional starship captain would have felt right at home here, which was a part of the reason Captain William Arthur had modeled it this way.
Captain Arthur, whom everyone just referred to as the "Cap'n", was a tall, broad, graying man in his late fifties, a strong, intelligent man. He was the leader of the Jetstream's crew, and one of the original designers of the airship in which they now rode. The Cap'n had a long and interesting history, and often told tales of his aviation adventures to the younger members of the crew. He had gone to piracy mainly because he loved flight, and had been shafted by NASA in the late seventies, when he had been chosen as the pilot for a space mission, but had been replaced by a far less able man who merely had better "connections".
The Cap'n was looking intently over the shoulders of a pirate seated in front of a monitor, the radar to be more specific. His face looked somewhat troubled, which Dan knew was a sign of trouble. The Cap'n was a master aviator, and remained calm even when all hell broke loose; if something caused him to look worried, it would undoubtedly be very, very bad. The Cap'n picked up a microphone near the radar screen and pressed a button, and red lights started flashing in the control room, conjunction with a siren, as the Cap'n sent an announcement throughout the entire airship.
"BATTLE STATIONS! THE HIGHWIND IS CLOSING! BATTLE STATIONS!"
Dan perked up. The Highwind was another airship, whose pirate crew had long been rivals with the crew of the Jetstream. No one really remembered how the rivalry had begun except the Cap'n, who wouldn't say anything on the matter. The only thing Dan knew was that they had been his mortal enemies his entire life, and he'd clashed with them on several occasions.
The Cap'n ran out of the control room, with Dan following suit. Battle between airship pirates was most often done via mechs and missiles; very rarely was there "boarding" of the other vessel as sea pirates often did. Besides, while battles between the three pirate crews of the air were common, never had there been a decisive victory. The crews were all highly skilled and evenly matched, so battles always ended in a draw, but every man on each crew fought his heart out, because pirates lived by pride, and they'd be damned if their ship was the first to fall in battle!
After going down three stories via an elevator within the airship, they were within the exosuit deployment room. Exosuits were a true show of the technological genius of airship pirates; huge robotic suits that greatly amplified the combat abilities of individual pirates. Standing nearly twenty feet tall, an exosuit was shaped much like a human being, with a cockpit in its center. The exosuits were equipped with a number of weapons, verying from suit to suit depending on the combat styles of the individual pilots.
Dan walked down the walkway, the exosuits in the huge room looming to the right and left, moving toward his. A large, red exosuit, on the shoulders and chest of which he had painted gunblades. The cockpit already stood open; the huge panel that covered it up had already been slid up, with a small rope ladder hanging from the cockpit to the ground. It seemed the mechanics had already prepped the exosuits for launch; they often took steps to prepare for events like this.
He climbed quickly into his mech, the Cap'n following suit on his own, then kicked the small ladder away from the mech's front door and closed it, then flipped several switches on the side of the cockpit, bringing the mech to life. A large monitor glowed on directly in front of him, loading the software that ran the complex weapon as he strapped in and made himself comfortable, grabbing the controls.
Only moments later, he was jumping out of a large launch door at the end of the room, into the sky. Dan free-fell for a few seconds, then kicked in the rocket engines on the back of his exosuit, slowing his descent, the gradually pulling him up, higher into the air, above the Jetstream. He floated just to the side of the ship, applying a bit of forward thrust to keep up with it, and waited.
They'd had a few small skirmishes with the Highwind over the past few weeks, none really a true battle, but even so, it was safer to sortie and be prepared for the Highwind's arrival than to be caught off guard. Besides, what were the odds that the two ships would just happen to meet here, of all places? The Jetstream had undoubtedly been followed here.
Looking ahead, Dan saw a large complex of buildings near a forest and some large mountains. This was without doubt Manga High School. They would directly over the school soon. He peered ahead, trying to see if he could see any students on the ground, examining the school carefully. He wondered what it would be like to study there, or if he would even survive this battle to be able to study there. It would be interesting, to say the least, especially considering what the Cap'n had told him about the school. So many people with strange abilities... it would be difficult to earn a proper pirate's reputation with so much competition.
A sudden bit of radio chatter tore him out of his almost trancelike state.
"Enemy exosuits, rear!" the Cap'n's voice said quickly.
Dan spun around, and sure enough, there were several exosuits, at least twenty, with the large black airship Highwind off in the distance. The exosuits were closing fast, and would soon be in firing range of the Jetstream. It was their unspoken mission to prevent them from coming in range, at all costs.
Dan fired his boosters, as several other suits floating around the Jetstream did the same, flying out at high speed to meet the attackers head on. There was very little subtlety in pirate combat; subterfuge and stealth were almost nonexistant. Battles were conducted one on one, man to man, the way any warrior should fight.
As they closed, machine gun fire began to spray toward them from the advancing enemy exosuits. Dan dodged and rolled, firing several volleys back via an arm-mounted machine gun of his own, clipping one enemy suit's right arm off. While some of his crewmates stayed back with ranged attacks, Dan drew the huge gunblade off the back off his exosuit; while he respected guns, melee was his combat method of choice.
With a burst of Mach 1 speed, Dan closed in on one of the enemy mechs in seconds. He slashed quickly through his enemy before he could react, slicing the mech clean in half horizontally across the torso, the two halves of the suit falling to the ground along with the now-dead man inside. He spun around to find another opponent closing in on him, a black exosuit with a Jolly Roger symbol on its chest, another melee fighter, wielding a broadsword.
This enemy mech wasn't just any exosuit, however. It was the weapon of Cid, the captain of the Highwind and an expert air combatant almost as good as the Cap'n himself. Dan froze for just a moment, as a bit of fear grabbed his throat, then leaped into movement. His oppenent was mere yards from him, and had already begun to swing his broadsword, and Dan blocked hastily with his gunblade, stopping the blade just inches from his exosuit's torso.
While Dan had fought in many battles, he'd never fought Cid. Cid and the Cap'n always fought one another; that was how it worked. A captain of one ship dueled the captain of the other, and when the Highwind attacked, Cid would seek out the Cap'n immediately, and vice versa. He'd never just attacked another pirate, unless he happened to be in his way, which Dan knew he wasn't.
Strike after strike came, Dan barely blocking them, most of them inflicting shallow cuts on his mech. Cid was a master swordsman, and there was no way Dan could match him. Dan blocked a side slash aimed at his torso, when Cid's other arm, formerly held in a guard position near his waist, moved up quickly, a blade popping out of the wrist, slicing off Dan's exosuit's left arm, gunblade and all.
Dan watched helplessly as his exosuit's massive gunblade tumbled down to the ground. It had been his only hope at surviving this encounter. Oddly enough, he noticed now that they were directly over what seemed to be some kind of huge garden at Manga High School. It was funny what you noticed when you were about to die. He wondered what the students on the ground would be thinking; they were at only about three thousand feet now, their battle clearly visible from the ground. Explosions and machine gun fire everywhere, bits of burning shrapnel flying to the ground, and two massize airships trading missiles and flares. They were probably scared to death; he knew landlubbers were afraid to fight. Cid pulled his sword back quickly, preparing to plunge it into the cockpit of Dan's suit. Dan froze, unable to do anything, faced with the horrific inevitability of his own death.
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The only reason the loner known as Devlin Fragston left his dormitory was to get some fresh air; he had been stuffed up in there most of his stay, only getting out a few times. This was his chance to explore the campus and possibly meet some “friends.” Of course, no one could replace his childhood friend, but Saymo wasn’t there, now was he? As his mind wandered, so did his body. It seemed the young man’s consciousness was away from his body as he drifted from one part of the school to the other. He had actually passed through many parts of the school at least twice, his blonde hair blowing in the small breeze.
His feet dragging across the ground due the lack of energy to lift them, Devlin dared not look up. He didn’t like the sky all that much, and especially didn’t enjoy the effect it had on him. It seemed that every time the teenager stared up into the sky, some external force required him to sneeze, one of the things he hated most.
As he looked around, snapping out of his daze for a moment, Fragston noticed something going on in the distance. Of course, he felt that damn sneeze coming on again, and so he immediately snapped his head back to the ground in order to prevent what he knew was coming. This attempt failed, however, and his head bent back for a moment before snapping forward, his right hand coming up to meet his mouth, a loud “achoo!” echoing throughout the Garden.
Recovering from this curse, the outsider opened his mouth and muttered a few swear words under his breath, careful to watch his language just in case a teacher was around. The last thing he wanted was to get kicked out of the school for a stupid reason. In fact, he didn’t want to leave at all. This was the only place where people wouldn’t look at him funny. He didn’t even know why people looked at him funny in the real world. He was a normal kid. The only thing separating him from them was the blade that could extend out from his palm. He didn’t even know where the blade had come from. Perhaps he, like other “weirdoes,” had been experimented on when he was a baby.
He almost passed on looking up into the sky again until he heard an explosion. It wasn’t exactly obvious that the sound came from more than a half-mile away in the sky, so, after recovering from his jumpy instincts, Devlin cocked his head from side to side, making sure that no one had accidentally blown something up. Next he turned towards the school itself. Maybe someone was screwing around with their powers and caused the explosion. Then again, everyone probably would have started laughing.
Only after all of these things exited out of Devlin’s mind did he look back up towards the thing that had caused him to sneeze just moments earlier. The sky was unusually blue; he turned his body, surveying the entire sky for what might have blown up. Only when another explosion went off in the background did Fragston realize what was going on. Someone or something was going on, but he wasn’t quite sure what. Fixated on what he saw, Devlin stood like a roman statue. The only thing moving on his body was his hair as it swayed back and forth from the wind.
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Davenarial had decided to walk around the gardens today, as he had never been there before. Daven smiles as he walks through the garden, smelling this flower. Or looking at that one.
Daven is just looking at some roses, when he feels something. At first he ignores it thinking it a semi on the road somewhere. But then when he feels an explosion, he feels around again. *That was in the sky. How interesting* Daven sidesteps some shrapnel. *Well whoever is up there is playing marry Heck on the garden*.
Amber Ramius Gothic Lolita Cutie, Nephilim Kanami Miyamoto "I search for The Truth!"
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Re: A Grand Arrival - Airship Pirate Battle! (Open)
Always something about the winter season that could make one sleepy. Bare trees and the scant few plants that could survive bear the brisk days, waiting for Spring to awaken them. At least to one resting against the trunk of a bare tree, it was easy to rest her eyes. Resting across her lap was her Tai Chi sword, a girl with tawny locks dressed in a blue and white-laced one piece dress with a white pinafore; an Alice dreaming in her own Wonderland.
She had not been asleep but listening, smelling, sensing everything that surrounded her immediate area. The cool wind would caress the ruffles of her dress and brought about the dormant, clean and dry scent of winter.
But there was something else in the air, even in her half-sleep state she could hear a difference. A low whistling that accompanied objects shooting through the air, explosions, the smell of smoke...what in the world was going on? Amber’s eyes flew open just in time to see not only two huge floating ships firing barrages of missiles at each other but burning debris falling from the sky and towards her! She quickly rolled to one side, feeling an exposed root of the tree bump against her wings. The debris embedded into the ground where Amber once slept, still smouldering. Amber forced herself to a stand, reaching back to feel the sore spot on her wing.
“That really hurt...” she mumbled. Now that she was (somewhat) out of danger, it gave her a moment to look up into the sky. It was an amazing sight! Two airships battling just above the school! There had always been those strange kinds of events that appeared around MHS, but there were times where Amber would find herself amazed by it all. Was this a sort of surprise event? If this was, she thought as she looked over at the debris that had landed in her meditating spot, it was rather dangerous.
Amber spotted Devlin and another unfamiliar young man watching the spectacle. Since she only knew one of the two, she opted to join with the former. She did however nodded her head to the unfamiliar one and then made a quick trot to stand next to Devlin. A large blade was embedded where red roses would be growing in the spring...V would be pleased with such a poignant image.
“What do you suppose that is all about?” she asked her aquaintence, looking up at the battle in the sky. If it was an elaborate performance, then all is well. If it wasn't then they would have to remain alert...
Hellsy Proving You Suck, One Day at a Time!Vash Hellsinger Knight in Shrouded Armour
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(2/6/07 3:15 pm) Reply
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Black and white. It was something the dunpeal was familiar with. During his stay at Manag High he had learned that shades of gray were not such a horrible thing. After all, he had become infatuated with one such shade. He smirked at the thought, his hat lazily sloped down to cover his face. He was stretched out across a branch of a tree, catching up with some well deserved rest and relaxation. Maybe he didn't have to sleep but his body pined for a moments peace once and awhile.
BOOM!
The explosion caught Vash off guard as he quickly snapped to life. He planted his hand onto the large branch and slid his body up into a crouching position. His eyes quickly spotted the problem, however queer the sight was. Two large ships were sailing through the skies as if on steams of zephyrs. It was a magnificent sight to behold, especially for the hunter. The explosions hinted a large scale battle between the two ships. The cackle of flak, the roar of jet engines, the shimmer of the exo-suits streaking through the air. It was enough to make the dunpeal's blood boil and invigourate his very being. He could hardly wait for the battle to reach a reasonable height so he could join the fray.
With that, he was off. Jumping from the tree tops, the hunter hit the ground sprinting as quickly as he could. The ships were slowly sinking into a reasonable range and Vash was running along side them on the ground below. is head was trained upwards to keep and eye out, always shifting his glowing eyes to avoid obstacles in his path. The picturesque moment was short lived as the group of three were quickly coming ever closer to Vash. He stopped on a dime, stannding directly beside Amber, smiling a little beneath the shadows of his hat before joining them in looking up at the battle above.
"I suppose we have another fight on our hands?" he half heartedly mentioned in a rehtorical manner. "To think I would have a few hours of peace today...Foolishness..."
Re: A Grand Arrival - Airship Pirate Battle! (Open)
OOC: Since this thread will likely be quite long (I have big plans) I'm going to go ahead and move it to the new MHS, since everyone else will have long been there before this thread is over...
If you could move your posts over as well, that would be nice too.
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