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Could this day get any worse?
Please don’t answer that. Allegra was in no mood for ‘any worse.’
Her first class had been...well…interesting. ‘Interesting’ is, of course, a synonym for ‘from hell.’ Allegra had stepped up to try to motivate her fellow students and she probably did was alienate herself. There was a reason that Allegra preferred to step back and let other people take the lead. Her head was now awash with all the insults and gossip everyone must be spreading about her.
Oh, and it was possible that one of them might want to eat her but that’s not nearly as bad as having the whole school talking about you.
Well, first thing on the list was to see if she could drop that class and perhaps make sense of her schedule. The headmaster had apparently signed her up for just about every class the school offered and most of them were scheduled at the exact same time.
More importantly, Allegra’s room was way too small and she needed to see if she could be transferred to a larger one where her clothes and shoes would have room to breathe.
Allegra was told she needed to talk to Gemma Taylor, the school counselor. Right now Ms. Taylor was busy helping a student with getting a GED but Allegra was welcome to wait. It was rather comforting to learn people here did normal things like try to further their education. There weren't all undead zombie girls.
Just then a young woman who looked half human/half praying mantis walked into the office snapping her giant claws. The insectoid mutant explained to the receptionist that she had just given birth to 50 intelligent grubs and she was wondering if it would possible to enroll them all in the school. Like Allegra, the woman was told that she would have to wait to see Ms. Taylor. The mutant mantis woman nodded and perched on top of a chair next to Allegra.
Allegra had a fear of bugs. No, scratch that. It was a state of pure freaking terror. Allegra once saw a two inch long cockroach and thought she was going to die on the spot. Needless to say, the roach was a cuddly little bunny compared to this woman. No one saw Allegra bolt out the door. They just heard her piercing screams echoing through the hallway.
Again, how could this day get any worse?
Allegra decided to just hole away in her munchkin-sized room, maybe draw up a bubble bath and repeat ‘there’s no place like home’ over and over again.
She then realized she left all her stuff in Ms. Taylor’s office. Well, there was no way she was going back there. Maybe she could just go to the kitchen and nervously binge eat. If there was ever a good excuse, this was it. Besides, she didn’t eat anything from Home Ec class and she was pretty hungry.
After more circling around aimlessly, Allegra finally found the kitchen. Time for some nice comfort food. The more fattening the better. She danced in to devour some empty calories when she spied…...um, she wasn’t quite sure. The plant from Little Shop of Horrors, perhaps? Okay, not that bad. It (she) looked sort of like a cute girl with pretty flowers and red hypodermic needles. And what was she rubbing off her taloned hands? Was that…. Blood?
More running. More screaming.
Though, come to think of it, that might have been ketchup.
Allegra was now running down the hall like one of those people in a horror movie who you just know is going to die any second. You know that scene when the heroine turns the corner and sees what looks like a……
‘Gargoyle’ was the word Allegra was grasping for but ‘Succubus Demon of Doom’ was the first thing that came to mind. The hellspawn-looking thing with the bat wings and horns could easily have been Beelzebub’s cousin. And there the gargoyle was, just walking casually with her clawed fingertips lightly scraping the wall as she went. She was probably on her way to scrape a blackboard with those claws and torture students for all eternity. Allegra certainly wasn’t going to stick around for that.
Allegra spun around and ran in the other direction, much like that character from a horror movie. Any second now, unspeakable evil would descend upon her and...
CRASH!
Allegra found herself face to face with a decidedly un-monstrous young man. Kind of cute, actually. Allegra considered herself a fairly good judge of people and, whether that was true or not, he seemed to radiate warmth and caring. Oh, and he wasn’t a zombie, giant bug, demon or killer plant. At least as far as Allegra could tell.
“Oh my god, I’m sorry,” she said to Derek. “No, it wasn’t your fault. I’m pretty sure I was the one not looking where she was going. There’s a reason why there’s rules against running in the hallways, I guess.”
Allegra bent down and swooped up Derek’s map before he was able to grab it and handed it to him. “I hate to tell you this, but that map is worthless. I got here yesterday and I’ve decided that just walking around aimlessly gets me to where I don’t want to go even faster. You don’t need the map for that. And believe it or not, this place actually has a hedge maze. I guess that’s for when you want to run around in circles for fun.”
Allegra laughed weakly. When she met new people she either babbled endlessly or snapped shut. Her nervousness at meeting someone new fueled with her recent terror meant she was going with babbling today.
“Are you new here?” she asked. “My name’s Allegra. Second day. Already missing all my friends and freaking out. And talking way too much. But I’m really glad to meet a friendly face and I’m really sorry for bumping into you like that. So, how do you like it here so far?”
It was strange to hear Glitch talk. The robot girl didn't even have a mouth. Still, despite her robot-ness (was that even a word) she seemed full of energy and personality. Just hearing her say....
<<“Ooo! Group work's fun,”>>
Yes, Allegra thought she was going to like her.
This was quite different from the girl that completely freaked her out. It wasn’t bad enough that Amber was seriously discussing the idea of eating people. Everything about that girl was freakshow nightmare crazy! Just the way she grinned at Allegra with that psycho smile that seemed to say ‘I’d love to eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.’
Yikes!
“merp,” Allegra stammered weakly as she gasped for air. This was just nervous gibberish. It was just Allegra’s unsuccessful attempt to get through her fear and form a coherent sentence. It wasn’t working very well.
<<"Who here is normal?" >>
“What does that have to do with anything?” Allegra challenged Amber. She had finally found the courage to speak real words. “So, if you’re not normal then it’s okay to eat people? Is that what you’re saying? What kind of crazy mutant logic is that?”
Allegra had a habit of speaking before thinking and that last line might have sounded like a slight against mutants. Allegra didn’t think she was a bigot. She just wasn’t sure she wanted to be around mutants and she certainly didn’t want to be one. But otherwise, she was fine with them.
“Look, I’m just saying that eating people shouldn’t be normal anywhere. I don’t care who you are,” Allegra said. “I’m anti-cannibal, not anti-mutant okay. I’m a mutant myself, after all.”
God those were hard words to say. Allegra still hadn’t convinced herself of that truth. She had been brought up to believe most mutants were drug dealers and thugs who mostly lived in gang infested neighborhoods. Allegra was a cheerleader dammit! She couldn’t be a mutant.
But some of these kids seemed nice. Not scary at all. There was Aoi, for example. She looked sweet and a lot of fun. “I love your hair,”Allegra said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m so jealous.”
Aoi asked about everyone's experience cooking. Allegra had basically none but she wanted to change the subject quickly after sticking her foot in her mouth. Plus she came up with a plan.
“I’m not the Iron Chef or anything but I’ve got a little experience,” Allegra said. “When I was a little girl I had an Easy Bake Oven and I’d bake for all my friends. Also, I would always talk to my housekeeper, Imelda, when she was cooking. I learned lots of stuff. See that part in the recipe where it says to preheat the oven? That just means you turn the oven on and let it warm up before sticking the food in. In other words you’re heating the oven.”
Why did they call it preheating then? Preheating seemed to imply something you did before you heated. That didn’t make any sense. Well, Allegra certainly wasn’t going to dwell on that. She was busy trying to sound like an expert.
Then Chase eloquently mentioned that there wasn't enough room for more than three butts per station. Chase seemed to want Amber on his team which was fine with Allegra who was terrified of Amber. But if Allegra was on a team with just two other people, she’d probably have to do more work and Allegra wasn’t too fond of work. Plus she’d want to keep an eye on Amber. What was that saying? Keep your friends close, but keep flesh eating zombies closer.
“No, we should all be on a team,” Allegra said. “There’s no rule we can’t use two work stations as long as we don’t take #13 or #14, right? Now I’m looking at the recipes. The chicken’s going to take the longest to cook so we should start prepping for that. Aoi, you said you have experience prepping so how would you like to start on that? And, Amber, why don’t you get the chicken ready and preheat the oven like I just explained? Just please don’t eat the raw chicken or we’re all gonna fail.”
“Now the cookies and the mac and cheese both only take about half an hour each so...um… I don’t think I got your name,” she said to Glitch. “How would you like to start getting the stuff for the mac and cheese ready? The mac and cheese should go in the oven half an hour after the chicken goes in, so we’ll want to have everything ready by then.”
“Same with the cookies. How would you like to handle that?” she asked Chase. “You can even lick the bowl.”
Allegra surprised herself. She was not take-charge-girl at all. It’s amazing how not wanting to do work and fear of being eaten alive can motivate someone.
Of course, she couldn’t look like she was doing absolutely nothing. “I’ll be what’s known as the floater,” Allegra announced. She didn’t know if ‘floater’ was a real term or if it was a made up word like ‘merp’ but Allegra was trying to sound as confident as she could to cover up how unconfident she felt.
“A floater is someone who floats around and makes sure everything’s going good. Plus if you fall behind or are having problems, just call me and I’ll come floating. What’s important is that we work as a team and support each other. We don’t need scare tactics. We just need to come together and shine together!”
Allegra said that extra loud so Mr. Turner could hear. If he didn’t like passivity, he probably liked passive aggressive even worse. But Allegra was on a roll.
“So let’s get to our stations and get cooking!” Allegra said. She clapped loudly and smiled with the same enthusiasm she radiated when cheerleading for her home team even though she thought football was the most boring sport in the world. If she smiled and grinned through this godforsaken class, it would be over before she knew it.
And hopefully she'd make a new friend or two through the experience.
Your mutant power is to be able to make so many incredible characters. Wow! >Date of Birth: 2007 (does not know day or month, open to suggestions)< Random birthday suggestion: February 2nd. Make the underwater Atlantean an Aquarius.
This could be the most original way to gain a power I've ever seen. Not sure if you've ever read Animal Man, but Darwin is sort of the anti-Animal Man.
Not to mention, I'm having way much fun RP'ing with him. Great character.
Allegra was late to her first class and she was lost again in this huge mansion. She decided not to even bother looking at the map because she'd just waste time staring at it while getting even more lost. If she had to be a mutant, couldn't she have gotten a sense of direction for a power.
She heard the news and stopped for a second. What a sad story. Allegra was an animal lover and the idea of all those poor creatures sucked dry like vampire victims wasn't making her day any better. There were two reasons Allegra didn't watch the news. It was boring and it was depressing.
Her phone beeped announcing yet another text. She checked to see what her friends from back home were doing. Their texts and phone calls were like a lifeline to her. She felt so alone in this strange place. This time though, it was from her limo driver. Apparently there were a few more of her things that needed to be delivered.
"Just great," she thought. She didn't have enough room for everything she already had. Well, this would be an opportunity for her to get rid of last season's clothes that she wasn't going to wear anyway.
She turned the corner and saw a huge crate sitting in the middle of the foyer. "That was fast," she thought. Allegra saw a group of students standing there arguing with a guy Allegra guessed was some sort of authority figure. Well, she really wasn't in the mood for authority figures especially when she was afraid this mob was going to steal her stuff. She pushed her way past everyone to get to the crate.
Ok, it wasn't hers. There were a bunch of FRAGILE labels and it came from Black Forest, Germany. Was that even a real place, she wondered. Maybe that's where Hansel and Gretel's witch lived. Curious, Allegra banged on the crate, not realizing there might be something alive in there. Even more, that something might be getting really annoyed with all the chatter and banging going on.
"Be careful or you'll be food for the dragon's food!" a student laughed.
"What?" Allegra asked. "There's a dragon?" With all the strange things going on in this school, she wouldn't be surprised. She ran away from the crate as if it were alive and bumped right into Rico.
"Oh my god. I'm so sorry," Allegra said. "Listen, does anyone know where room 28 is? Home Ec with Mr. Turner."
"I've got class right next door," a student with twenty eyes that swirled and raced around the front and back of his head, offered. "Follow me."
He started walking though it wasn't like he was being rude by turning away from Allegra. With eyes racing around his head, he could see her just as well. Allegra saw he even had a mouth on the back of his neck.
"Okay," she said feeling a little creeped out, but somehow not nearly as nervous as she was standing next to the crate.
"Sorry again," she said to Rico then followed the strange young man to class.
What do you get when you cross a robot with a ninja? Someone who failed ninja school.
It was an awful joke but it was the first thing that Allegra thought of when Glitch tried to sneak in. Her next thought was ‘why is there a robot in this class?’ Of course, this wasn’t any stranger than flesh eating zombie mutants. Besides,this seemed like a friendly robot, kind of like DJ Roomba. The T-shirt she wore made her seem more whimsical. Allegra wondered how many other mechanical beings were lurking around here. Allegra had no idea that Gladys was a mutant as well. She just smiled and waved at the mechanical mutant as she joined them at the table.
Then Allegra noticed Aoi sitting by herself. Allegra was the type that wanted to include everyone and didn’t want people to be lonely. Plus, Aoi looked like a normal person unlike most of the folks at her table. Normal was comforting. Sure, the girl’s hair color was different but that fell under the category of ‘cool not creepy.’ In fact Allegra wanted to ask her about it so she called over to her. “Hi. Why don’t you come over and sit with us?” Allegra offered with a welcoming smile.
The smile turned to something like the expression in ‘The Scream’ painting as Amber calmly asked "Why not people?" Allegra was dumbfounded. How do you answer that?
“Because…….people!” Allegra managed to gasp. No, it certainly wasn’t a debate team worthy response, but Allegra was both shocked and afraid that she might be the appetizer. Discussing the finer point of cannibalism wasn’t something she was prepared to do while Amber’s unblinking eyes were piercing through her. Allegra just whimpered and scooted her chair back away from the table.
The young boy started laughing. Did he think Allegra’s sheer terror was funny? “No! I do not eat people!” she shouted. “Normal people do not eat people. Why are we even discussing this?”
(FYI: Anyone who answers 'because you started it' is going to make Allegra very upset. )
Then class began. Allegra did not care for the teacher’s comment about the real world where you can’t go crying to mommy. Allegra had already texted her mother her school schedule so her mom could start rounding up people that could do Allegra’s homework for her. Allegra decided that Mr. Turner had a very warped view of the real world.
She frowned at the menu. Allegra was a vegan who didn’t eat animals or animal products. Although her shoes and handbags were leather (fashion comes first) Allegra loved animals and couldn’t understand why they needed to suffer needlessly when there were so many alternatives to eat. Granted, this paled in comparison to the idea of eating people but she was still concerned. She wished she had looked at her schedule when Ruddy gave it to her so she could voice her objections.
Allegra rose her hand along with Chase then lowered it at the same time. Mr. Turner (aka ‘Sir’) was not much for the questions.
Chase was persistent. He was going to ask anyway.
“I think we should work as a group,” Allegra said to the others. She’d wait to see what the teacher had to say about the matter, though.
First day of school is always scary, but the first day at a brand new school full of mutants is the stuff of nightmares. At least it was for Allegra.
Literally nightmares. Her alarm jolted her out of a frightening dreamscape where she was running late to class naked chased by mutant zombies and about to fall off an impossibly tall building. All those cliches that seem laughable in the morning can be pretty darn terrifying when you're dreaming about them.
Things weren’t so much better when she woke up. Allegra looked around and felt an instant sense of claustrophobia surrounded by the mountain of unopened boxes that took up most of her tiny room. Ok, it really wasn’t tiny but as Allegra was used to having a whole floor to herself in her mom’s mansion, this was quite a downgrade. Deciding to bring just about everything she owned to fit into this room wasn’t one of her better plans.
She had meant to talk to someone about getting a bigger room but after spending some time yesterday decorating the cleaning robot along with the Tinkerbell looking girl with the fish scale legs, Allegra decided she was exhausted and just fell into bed.
Wait? Was she really decorating a roomba with pipe cleaners or was that a dream too? Allegra was getting the feeling that ‘reality’ was going to be a pretty subjective term here at this new school.
Allegra showered and instantly missed the shower head's ‘gentle rain shower’ setting that she was used to back home. She was really going to be roughing it here. She then spent an excruciating half hour in the tiny bathroom doing her hair and make up. She then rifled though the unpacked boxes for something to wear and thankfully found one of her favorite Michael Kors floral dresses which would make her feel so much better and more confident. She desperately needed to feel better and confident. She was a wreck.
Allegra hadn’t looked at the schedule ‘Ruddy’ gave her, so it would probably be a good idea to check it out now. First period. Home Ec? Allegra had housekeepers to do all that cooking and cleaning stuff. Well, maybe she could bring home some good recipes.
Allegra wasn’t even going to ask why the headmaster had scheduled her for just about every class the school offered and many of them were scheduled for the same time. Was that a mutant thing? She wasn’t even going to ask what the hell ‘Danger Room’ was.
But now she had to get to her Home Ec class. Thankfully a few passerby took pity on the new girl with no sense of direction and pointed her to where her class was. And it was like no class she had seen before. It looked like a little restaurant inside a classroom. Allegra looked and saw the workstations in back. Workstations equaled work. Allegra was fine with eating food. She wasn’t so much about cooking it.
A young man whooshed right past Allegra as she was standing at the doorway to the classroom trying to take it all in. She had read there would be students of all ages in the classes. A 12 year-old didn’t seem too threatening so she followed the boy and moved to introduce herself.
“Hi, I’m Allegra. Today’s my first day. Do you mind if I sit here?” she asked him.
Allegra then turned and looked the other woman right in the eyes. Or at least she thought she did. It was like looking into pitch black nothingness. And the woman’s skin? My god! It looked sickly and pale like those zombies from her nightmares earlier.
A scream tried to escape Allegra’s lips but she held it back. Allegra tried to remind herself once again that she was attending a school with mutants and some of them would look strange. Strange she could take. Abby’s legs were kind of strange. But this woman looked like something from beyond the grave. Allegra wasn’t sure she could deal with that.
But the only other options were to move to an empty table or just run out of the classroom altogether. Option one would be incredibly uncomfortable and option two would brand her a coward. No,Allegra would just have to pretend that everything was just fine and hope this woman didn’t eat brains.
“N-n-nice to meet you too,” Allegra stammered. “So...um…… looks like an interesting class, huh?” Slowly she slid into her seat. “Wonder what kind of stuff we’re going to learn how to cook. Hopefully not people.” Allegra gave a weak laugh as if to say ‘of course I’m joking.’
Then the drill sergeant of a teacher made his presence known. For a second, Allegra was actually more afraid of him than she was of Amber. But just for a second.
"Think he's gonna make us peel potatoes and do push ups?" Allegra whispered. Chase seemed nervous. Who could tell what Amber was thinking? And Mr. Turner did not look the least bit amused.
Allegra followed Chase’s lead and just sunk down into her chair hoping not to be noticed.
"Hi Abby," Allegra smiled. She was relieved that Abby didn't seem dangerous like many of the mutants she had read about. Allegra was even able to ignore the strange scales that covered the girl's legs. Abby had a youthful and almost childish energy. After bawling her eyes out and stressing, this was just what Allegra needed to decompress.
"So you've been here a few years, huh?" Allegra asked. Allegra was only 15 years old, but looked a bit older dressed in her formal suit jacket. Looking formal and professional would serve her well when she went back into the office to demand a bigger room. For right now though, she just wanted to relax and hopefully make a new friend.
"How do you like it here? What are the classes like? Are the other kids here nice? Is there a bunch of cliques or is everyone pretty cool? This is my first time at a brand new school, so I'm kinda nervous. "
Allegra sat on the floor next to Abby and took a pipe cleaner. As her hand came close to brushing Abby's, Allegra panicked for a second. Ever since that night her powers kicked in, Allegra had been afraid that it would happen again.
Allegra had to remind herself that the school had assured her that as long as she kept focused, it wouldn't. Before Allegra was allowed to come here, she had to send a blood sample to the school so they could evaluate her mutant powers. They had to make sure that potential students weren't going to emit deadly radiation, morph into poisonous gas or anything else that would put the other students lives in danger. Of course, there was always a risk with mutants but Allegra was assured that her powers were at the acceptable risk level. Even so, Allegra was worried. Abby seemed like a sweet girl and Allegra would never forgive herself if she did something to hurt her.
"Let's see," Allegra said as she twisted one end of the pipe cleaner in a circle then did the same on thing on the other end. She then twisted a pipe cleaner around one of the circles and another pipe cleaner around the other circle then folded both newly attacked pipe cleaners on the end so it looks sort of like a pair of eyeglasses. She then fit the eyeglasses over the DJ's Ipod.
"Now you can see better and you look like a hipster," Allegra smiled at the robot. "How's that?" she asked Abby.
