[Last Time, on Battle High: Angered by the group beating leveled at their captain, the students of Musashi hall room 101 challenged our heroes to a duel. Our heroes accepted and got their posteriors handed to them on a silver platter, by way of two submissions and a really nasty KO. After the battle, Karasu went headhunting and defeated the person who so badly injured Hope. He looked really cool for once.] [Now that battle is over, though, and the group has retreated to their room with Hope's body in tow. She's beginning to regain consciousness after being knocked out for interfering in Karasu's fight.] [Recovery Battle... FIGHT!] * Hope groans. * Karasu leans against the wall. * Atsuko hovers worriedly over Hope, waiting for her to come around. * Mariah is sitting on the couch, waiting for Hope and taking a desperately-needed breather herself. * Hope groans and sits up.. and launches herself right at Karasu. "BASTARD!" * Atsuko 'yeep's, and hops out of Hope's way. * Karasu doesn't look particularly surprised. * Hope decks Karasu as hard as she can. * Mariah watches but doesn't get off the couch. "... oh." * Karasu moves his head to the side, just far enough so that Hope misses. * Hope launches another kick, right for his groin. * Karasu catches Hope's leg under his arm. "Are you through now?" * Hope punches Karasu. * Karasu catches her fist in his hand. "I suppose not. Fine. I give up." Fine then. * Hope decks Karasu with her free hand. * Karasu doesn't bother to do anything with this one, and winds up on the floor. Better. Don't ever do that again. * Hope extends a hand to help Karasu up. * Karasu takes it, but doesn't look very pleased as he rises. "I ought to say that to you." * Atsuko chews on her lower lip nervously as she watches the two. But I won't. It's already happened, and nothing can change it now anyhow. I wonder what they're gonna do about it... Hey, you're the one who hit me first pal. 'sides, he was mine. Well, now we're even. * Karasu shrugs, and doesn't offer any more than that. * Hope thinks. "We got another fight comin' up I think. Anyone see a slip of paper?" * Atsuko blinks and checks around the door for such. * There is no slip of paper. * Atsuko shakes her head. "Nothing." I would doubt that there would be one so soon. I dunno... maybe that was our fight for today? * Karasu goes back to leaning on the wall. D'you really think they'd have us fight twice like that? None of us are in any condition to fight again today. Besides...if we had another fight, we'd probably end up missing part of class. ^^: * Atsuko lies down on the empty couch to rest her sore body. Yeah... ... I think I'm gonna go take a nap. I'm gonna go train. * Hope goes to do so. Actually... * Atsuko gets up and grabs her biology textbook, then flops back down on the couch to continue her reading. How long is it until lunch, anyway? I dunno. * Mariah stands up and walks into her room to nap, as previously stated. Quite possibly never. The cafeteria was destroyed, remember? * Atsuko looks at her watch. * It should be lunchtime in a couple hours. * Karasu checks on Kai. * Atsuko frowns in annoyance. "As if I could forget. We DID have dinner yesterday, remember?" * Kai is still very unconscious, and looking kind of pale. * Karasu comes back out of Kai's room speaking as he walks. "Dinner isn't lunch." He heads for the door. "I'm going out." ... Hmph. * Hope works out on the punching bag. * Mariah will wake up after a while and come back into the common room. "There. That's a little better, I think." * Atsuko turns her head to see Mariah. "Hi. Wanna go do something else? This book is putting me to sleep." Yeah, let's. I think it'll help to take a walk. * Atsuko tosses the textbook onto the other couch and hops to her feet. "Sounds good." ^_^ * Mariah picks up her staff from where she left it, slings it onto her back, and walks outside. * Atsuko walks out after Mariah. * So two of our heroes leave the room to explore the school. There's lots of places they could go. The cafeteria's closed off, or was, though there's now a gaping entrance near them where Karasu put his opponent through the door, but there are plenty of other places to go, if they just look. * Mariah doesn't have any particular objectives in mind; she'll wander to anything that looks interesting. * Among these are the auditorium, which they haven't visited since the first day after lunch, and it was only ruins then. There's the backup auditorium, too, and several sports fields. For entertainment and training, there's always the slopes of the mountain. * Atsuko stretches her arms above her head. "We really haven't gotten much of a chance to explore..." Yeah; d'you wanna see anything in particular? * A medicine ball soars over the corner of the building as they exit and lands in front of Atsuko, leaving a tiny crater where it landed. I'd like to look around outside. That sounds goo--hey, what was that? * Atsuko hops back, entering a defensive stance as she lands. * A tall blond boy dashes around the corner, strapped to his back is a large sword, not quite rivaling Hope's, but still pretty big. He grabs the medicine ball and holds it under one arm. "Er... sorry about that. Diana lost control of the ball." He smiles and turns away, hurling the ball back the way it came, and then dashes off after it. * Atsuko straightens up and blinks. ... wow. What're they playing? I dunno. Wanna go find out? ^_^ Yeah! * Atsuko grins and runs after the boy. * Mariah follows. * As you round the corner, a truly bizarre sight is revealed. On what appears to be a slightly larger than regulation basketball court, ten people are playing what appears to be a bizarre cross between soccer and basketball. Except that instead of using a ball that bounces readily, they're using a medicine ball. * To one side of the court, a goat grazes on a patch of grass. Whoa. * Atsuko watches curiously. * After a few minutes of observation, you've got some of the rules puzzled out. It appears to be a bizarre version of full-contact basketball played with the no-hands rules of soccer. While your feet are engaged in getting to and taking the ball, your hands are attacking the ball bearer with whatever means you prefer. Neat. * Mariah watches. .oO(... wow, I could never do that. Ever.) * The blond haired boy fumbles the ball, sending it out of the court. It rolls to a stop near the goat. The goat, being a goat, promptly takes a large bite out of it. There's now half a ball there. * Atsuko blinks at the goat, and starts giggling. ... the goat can even *eat* the medicine ball? * The players groan collectively, and a boy with spiky black hair yells at the blond haired boy, "Demitri, get the damn goat OUT of here! If it eats the ball again, we're gonna have to buy new ones, and _I_ don't have the money!" * An obviously greek boy runs off the court and hops onto the goat's back. "C'mon, boy, let's get you back to the room. I'm not paying for another ball." Oh. It's a pet. * Demitri rides off on the goat. Maybe it helps him fight somehow. I've heard of people who have animal partners that fight beside them. It's got to be a fighting goat or something. * The players walk off the court while the blond boy runs off, presumably to get another ball. * Atsuko giggles again. "A fighting goat. That I gotta see." * The spiky haired boy approaches faster than the others. "Actually, it's his mount. He fights while riding it." * Mariah looks at the spiky-haired boy. "Oh? That's neat..." I've seen that goat eat solid steel. It was my sword, in fact. I almost had goat for dinner that night. ... wow. Kinda scary. Anyway, we haven't seen you around before, have we? * Atsuko blinks. "Wow." Yeah, I don't think so... are you guys freshmen? * Atsuko shuffles uncomfortably. "Well, uh... Yeah, we're freshies. I'm Ryo. Ryo Wildfire. Hi! I'm Mariah Ritter, and this is Atsuko. Cool. Uh, lemme do introductions. The guy who rode off on the goat is Demetri Spyros. The guy who ran off to get the new ball is Sage Halo. The tall guy over there with the lance that you can't see right now is Lance. The guy with the giant scimitar is Mather, and the guy with daggers is Tyrone. .oO(Lance with a lance? Hey, whatever.) Um... the guy over there with the naginata is Rowan, the unarmed guy is Ikea, but he's not really unarmed. And the unarmed girl is Tanisha. She's really unarmed, but it doesn't matter. * The group waves as they're introduced. * Atsuko bows politely. "Pleased to meet you all." * Mariah waves to the group. "Nice to meet you guys." Hey, you guys wanna join up when Demitri and Sage get back? We can always use some more attacks flying around the field. * Atsuko grins widely. "Sure!" Uh, okay... I guess I could try. Yeah, no kidding. Good training for when the league starts up. But you'll have to tell me the rules. I've never seen this game before. ^^ Boy do the attacks flyin big games. It's pretty simple, really. You try to get the ball through the enemy hoop. You can't touch the ball with your hands or your attacks, and blowing up the ball is the only foul. Feel free to blow up the other players, including the ballhandler. * Atsuko nods. "Sounds simple enough." ^_^ Okay. Yeah, it kinda sucks that the hoops are so high, though. Fifteen feet is a long way up to kick a medicine ball. * Mariah looks up at the hoop. "... yeah... * Demetri comes stomping back out from the castle. * Atsuko glances up at the hoop. "Eheh." So, how many players on each team? * Sage comes running back, a new ball balanced on his head. It doesn't matter, really. You can play with as many as can fit on the court. Oh. Okay. ^_^ Whose team are we on? No silly rules about who can go where at what times. Just a struggle to get the ball away from the current carrier and into the hoop. * Atsuko smiles brightly and stretches. "Sounds fun to me." It's fun, even if some people don't want to admit it's anything but good training. Okay... * Ikea very carefully does not react tot he people laughing at him. * Mariah makes her way onto the field. [Fight Postponed on account of sickness]