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Shane grinned at the thought of his being so young, "Man...We used to be so cute...But now we're just old and ugly, well, I am at least." Shane always loved making jokes, he'd go so far as to insult himself, just to make someone smile, making people smile made him smile, he remembered that when he was young he wanted to be a magician. "Remember when transformed into a rabbit I pulled myself out of a hat?" Shane had been reminiscing so much that he had forgot about the disaster that had occurred the previous night. "And I was not...Shut up...You were embarrassed." He turned away as to not show the scarlet color on his face.

Vi nodded in understanding. "Well, I guess I'll keep that in mind then, and remember to shoo off any snakes I see from now on. But you did good just now, not completely losing control. That's something to be proud of. And hey, if you need to blow off some steam, maybe I could help."

"Doesn't sound too weird. Makes sense that being in water would keep a pyromancer calm. I enjoy swimming myself, and I don't even have to hold my breath, since I can turn into water." Vi said. She then sighed. "Hmm, we do... Maybe a quick break then? I mean, just to be safe and keep you from burning things accidentally. The others should understand. And if they don't, then I'll vouch for it."

Asa listened intently to the reminiscing, smiling as he brought up those good memories. Ah, the blissful ignorance of childhood, where the most traumatic thing that ever happened was a particularly painful paper cut... she quite missed it. She could help but give a restrained snicker at Shane's reaction. Although his face was turned away, his ears had their fare share of redness. "To be fair, I was plenty embarrassed, too."

"Yea, Well, I had a reputation to keep, I couldn't have people think I was dating you!" The sarcasm was strong in his statement, love was indeed an odd thing the camp, sometimes Outcasts who were in love couldn't be together because their powers restrained them from being able to be with eachother, and it was very seldom you could find a partner with the same powers, that had happened but only a few times, and one of those times was Shane's parents. "I'm just kidding, you'd be lucky to have me as your boyfriend." Shane never felt odd about talking about these sorts of things, because he knew Asa knew to seldom take it seriously.

"HELP!" Shane heard a cry, someone needed help. The voice came from under a cabin, there was a lot of debris on top of the trap door where whoever was calling for help was trapped.

"Oh, that would be gorgeous. Maybe you'll shift into a werewolf for me," she sneered, "because every girl wants a werewolf!" Asa immediately stopped laughing at her own joke when she heard the plea for help, and without a second thought, she snatched Shane's hand, preparing to fly to the source of the distress.

((Lunarz, you need to have The Director do something, Nathan's currently following him.))

//Okay, I don't know what he's gonna get out of him, he's very sneaky //

Shane held on tight, the smile on his face now a stern, sold, horizontal line on his face, his eyes burning with seriousness, and rage. "Let's go, it's that way" He pointed to the east. "Someone's hurt...Bad."

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The Director had been walking around, making sure everyone was doing there job, he would stop every now and then to watch Outcasts fly, or run, slide, or trot by, giving them looks of reassurance that everything would be alright, he looked like he genuinely cared, he even stopped to help a young girl find her parents. Go ahead Telepath, I dare you to read my mind...It won't work, all you'll get will be high-pitched noises...I'm no fool...I know you are following me... e thought to himself, making himself feel smart for knowing he was being followed.

"True. I mean, it seems better to skip out on work to calm down, than try to help out but lose control of your powers. I mean, we don't want to make problems worse for everyone." Vi said. Normally, she would want to help everyone, but with so many people working together to clean up already, it seemed like they had enough help as it were. Besides, it seemed that Ray needed just as much help himself, if not more. They couldn't have him lose control and start burning things.

Nathan had been following The Director for some time now, and felt like he didn't know that he was being followed. He had almost been revealed by some other outcasts a few times, but he managed to use his telco thy to convince them they hadn't seen him. It was a cool trick he had been practicing for awhile. He had mainly been doing it on things like birds, or squirrels, but he had figured that humans wouldn't be that hard. And he was right. It was only a little but harder.

He decoded it was come time he did something so that he wasn't just following The Director around all day. "Time to see what's on your mind." He said trying to get into hai mind. What he heard instead hurt his ears, even though he technically wasn't hearing it from his ears. "Aaahhhhh!" He said, dropping to the ground, his hands to his head. The high-pitched frequency was unbearable. He felt like all he had ever heard, all he is hearing, all he will ever hear, was the sound. He decided he couldn't take it anymore, and stopped trying to get into The Director's mind. He immediately passed out after that.

Asa's face was unreadable, and she persisted to the spot where the cries of help were: buried under the rubble of a previous home. "Can you shift into something that can lift those beams?" she said sternly, clawing through the debris. Unfortunately, her light-bending powers were useless regarding the problem.

Shane nodded at her inquiry, and he began to change, his small arms grew long and hairy, bursts of black appearing everywhere, his legs grew short but bent to allow for him to be able to lift things easier, his back grew hairs of silver, his shirt stretched out to fit his now large body, his face grow long and black, he had became a Silverback Gorilla. "I'm on my way!" The gorilla grabbed a large beam and lifted it up, but it was heavy even for him in his strong form, his arms began to ache and his shirt began to rip. "Ahh!" He threw the beam across the field and opened the trap door, grabbing the small girl that was trapped and helping her out.

((Hey, just a note. If you see a word and where you think there should be an I, while there's an O, it's because of my iPad. And vice versa.))

OOC: Ah, OK!


"Hey, we need help over here!" Asa cried, trying to get the other residents' attention. She turned back to the little girl, who was being cradled by Shane's strong, grey arms. "Are you OK?" she asked softly, deeply concerned. If anything rubbed the photomancer the wrong way, it was seeing children in a state of despair and harm. It was so cruel and unfair, she couldn't stand it.

The girl was very frightened as she had just been buried alive, all she could do was nod softly and then bury her face into Shane's chest. "We should probably give to her to main office, they'll be able to find her parents." Slowly Shane began to shift into a human again, his shirt was all torn up, usually his clothes stretched or would just disappear somehow, even he didn't understand how his clothes would disappear and then reappear again, he always assumed that his body morphed with the clothing. "C'mon, let's get her to the main office."

((Hey, I was thinking that, if you allowed it, The Director could be sitting by the bed I'm gonna have Nathan wake up in.))

//Thar wouldn't make any sense, there would be no reason for that, he's not some creepy guy who stalks everyone, he's s smart and cunning evil genius, if you have an idea, PM me, but try not to plan too many things.//

((Kay, I see your point. I just want Nathan to encounter The Director! ))

Asa gave a solemn nod, standing up, from crouching to her full height. She looked protective of the little girl, watching every movement around them as if something would spring out for the attack. None came. "Let's go." She would have made a joke about Shane's torn clothes, but she was almost never the type to kid around in a serious situation, especially if it involved a terrified child. Then she stiffened, alarmed. "Shane... what if they still are down there?" she whispered, pointing back at the rubble. It was possible, and it happened all the time... at least, in the outside world, she assumed.

His stare became ice cold as he looked to the trap door and then back Asa, and then taking a double-take, he handed the girl to her. "Take her, I'm going down there." He jumped down into the dark basement, all of the lights had been broken and torn out from the storm, loud banging noises were heard as Shane was searching for anyone else in the basement. Then, out of the darkness, a man and a woman crawled out of the basement, followed by Shane, who was carrying a young boy, he let the boy go and he ran to his parents side. "Man...I almost ran into a post down there, it's dark as all he-" At that moment a beam that was wobbling around fell, knocking Shane on the head and sending him down to the ground.

Asa hesitantly took the girl in her arms, clearly struggling to keep her up. The nineteen-year-old's size was misleading, unless you figured out that tall, thin form does not equal strength. She heaved a sigh of relief when the rest of the family clambered out of the trap door, both at the fact that they were OK and she didn't have to hold the little girl any longer, who was becoming increasingly heavy. They gratefully took their child back, only for her to gasp in shock as as beam knocked Shane to the ground. "Shane!"

"Yeah, so we can just take a quick break, and then come back to see if anyone really needs us. I don't think they really do, though. There's plenty of people here to help out, and everyone's got powers. Heck, I can't even use mine without absorbing something first, so I'm limited to what's around me, and I don't even know how useful I would be." Vi shrugged.

Asa's cry for help had snapped Michael's attention to them. He immediately trotted over, not sure what he could do, but wanting to help. By the time he had arrived, Shane was coming out of the wreckage with a boy in his arms. He froze up. Buried alive... He shook his head, forcing the feelings out. There was no time for that. As the closed the distance between himself and the small group, Shane suddenly collapsed as a wooden beam fell upon him. He gasped softly, the closest thing to a sound you'd ever get from him. Immediately trotting over to him, he lowered himself to the ground and tried to see if he was okay. Please be okay...

Vi chuckled a little bit. "Yeah. 'Hey, this thing's broken! The food isn't cooking!' And then you come along to save the day. But yeah, I'm not really sure what all we could do."

Shane groaned in pain, his arms and legs twitching, "Mmmmm..." He mumbled, but it was too painful to speak, the beam had hit him right in the head, thankfully he wasn't brain damaged, he could still think straight, but there was a small taste of blood as a drop ran down his forehead and onto his lips, thankfully Shane had come out last, or one of the people he was trying to save might have died...."I could really go for that ice cream right about now..."

Vianne quickly caught up to him and walked along beside him. Her strides might not have been as long, but she could walk quickly when she wanted to. Despite all the chaos that had happened already, Vi was still pretty much happy that she had come to camp so far. She wished she had been raised here like the others, as it seemed like a great place to live. Sure, it had it's quirks and flaws, but every place did. She just hoped that she had finally found a place she could call home, with friends she could actually keep.

Michael tilted his head, worried for Shane, a worry that showed on his face and in his eyes. Hesitantly, he reached out to the shapeshifter, putting his fingertips on the boy's temple. His eyes were questioning now. Asking permission. Permission for what.. how could he explain to the boy what he wanted to do? Without words, no less?

Nathan groaned as he woke up, a throbbing headache going through him. "Ow, my head feels like it just got hit by an anvil." He said, kneading his temples together. "We don't know what happened, you just started screaming. We weren't sure what to do." A voice said that he didn't recognize. "What, who?" He asked the girl sitting by the bed he was in. He realized he was in the camp hospital. "We had no where else to take you, so we took you here." He just looked at her. "Thanks." He said, confused. "I think I'm gonna go back to my cabin." He said, getting up and walking out.

"They're just animals. They're not evil, and even if they may seem like it, they have no ill intention towards you. But I get that you don't like 'em. Not everyone does. I guess I'm fairly neutral. Never had a problem with them myself. Still, you gotta do what you gotta do if one tries to bite you." Vi said.

"Hmm. Understandable." She gave a slight nod. "I probably wouldn't like them either if I had a bad experiance with them." Vi said.

Vi looked around for a moment herself. "I don't think anyone else will come out here anytime soon. I also see no sign of the enemy." She said, referring to the snakes that he hated. She then walked over to the lake. She sat down at the water's edge, and placed her feet in the water, not even caring about her shoes and socks getting wet. As she sat there, idle and content, Her body began to become completely made of water, starting at her feet and going all the way up to hr head.

Vi chuckled. "Alright, but I'll probably become like invisible to you once I get in the water." She smiled. Then she hopped in, and sure enough, her body perfectly camouflaged in with the rest of the water. She lay on the water's surface on her back, appearing more like the water itself was flowing upwards in the shape of a human, instead of her body actually floating on the surface.

Vi's smile faded and she sighed as she frowned a bit. "I guess you could say it's sorta like your snake problem. Just bad experiences with it." She muttered.

Vianne stayed quiet for a moment. She closed her eyes, sighing as she thought her past experiences with telepathy. None of them had really been good. She hated that some telepaths abused their power, tapping into someone's mind and going into places where they had no business being. The mind was private. A person's thought should remain secret, if that person wanted them to be that way. No one had the right to invade someone's privacy like that. It was just wrong on so many levels.

"Absorbing an element pretty much happens naturally, like automatically almost. I don't really have to think about it. Whatever I absorb immediately becomes a part of me, almost like it was meant to or something. I don't know, my body just naturally reacts and changes when I'm in contact with something. I'd have to actually stay focused to stop it." Vi explained.

"Also, when in water form, I can't technically swim. 'Cause, you know, water doesn't swim in itself. I'm not even floating right now. I have to actually concentrate a little bit just to keep my body on the surface of the water, and essentially 'staying together' instead of mixing and blending with the water. It's sorta hard to explain, but when I absorbed the water, I became a part of it. I can actually feel the fish swimming around in the lake, and all the plants, and even, well, you."

"Yeah, several times. I know how, and I can do it, too. I just choose not to a lot of the time. It's fun, using my powers. Plus, as the saying goes, use it or lose it. It's always good to stay in practice." She said.

Vi then sighed, and slowly her body returned back to normal, as if the water was being drained out of her. Now she actually was just floating there on the surface. "See? Piece of cake. It just requires a little bit of concentration. But the water wants to fuse with me, I can feel it. It's like dumping a bucket of water in the lake. Once they connect, they become one, and it's like the water in the bucket was never separated from the lake."