Power Corrupts(Open)

[jace]

It had been a long time since he had stepped foot in these classrooms. For several months, Jace had been gone, away on family business, paid for in full by the government, of course. While he was gifted, he was also the heir to his father's small business, and when the old man had gotten sick, Jace had been forced to help him out. He had returned only the day before, and was ready to return to his post as leader of the prefects.

Jace was indeed the leader of the Prefects, the students designated to keeping the rest of the students in line. The government was very careful about the gifted, and they had made sure that they had loyal student body members to ensure that the gifted didn't rise up and try to wipe them out. It was Jace's job to ensure that the government didn't think they needed extermination. Essentially, he was the shield that kept the student body alive, and they didn't even know it. Well, he may have been a little harsh at points, but it was better than the alternative.

The classroom he was in was a large arena type room, for power training. People with similar powers trained the freshman, and eventually the older students took on a mentor role in the class, allowing the teachers to focus on the freshman. Jace himself had never mentored someone, but if the right potential showed up, he would offer his services. Probably to someone who could replace him. Jace wondered when Battleground would show their faces, or even the other prefects. He was bored, and needed something to distract him, good or bad.

[lilo]

The big question of why did Eliska come in here. Turning around to go out the door she remembered her hands were still glowing and red with radiation. Sitting down on the cold floor she tried to snuff it out, but it just glowed more. The only way to get it out was to figure out what was wrong with her. Maybe it was because she was stressed, she had not gotten mad lately so she decide against that. Holding them together so not to spread any radiation or attention to herself she got up. Thinking back to all the work she had to finished. She realized that it was that, oh how she hated being stressed. Non-gifted humans have it better when they are stressed, since they always just sit down and calm themselves. It was another story for Eliska though.

Balling up her hands she hid them behind her back trying to think about other things. When her mind wondered back to the homework, a small tiny blast came from her right hand and it went through the floor. Shaking her head she thought about her mom at home, finally when her hands snuffed out she crawled slowly over to the hole in the floor. It was probably still radioactive, so touched her hands to it and tried to take out the radiation. Finally sitting down on the floor once again she watched the hole with narrowed eyes. If getting stressed out could do this to her she had a sucky life. Looking around she noted that she at least went into the right room. The power classroom, well not exactly the right room. She shrugged and got up when she heard footsteps coming her way.

Without turning around her head still looked at the hole, what would the person behind her think about the hole. Eliska actually could care less what he really thought but she still wondered if she could get in trouble for blasting a hole through the floor. Yawning really big she covered her mouth, then she turned around. At first she had no idea who it was, but then slowly recognition came into her mind. It still did not seem to take notice on her face. Nodding she said "Hello." Looking behind her she looked at the hole but she decide to ignore it even if it wondered in her mind. Putting her hands behind her back she looked at the guy in front of her. She was a perfect who did not really know her own leader. But she shrugged once more to her own thoughts.

[jace]

Jace noticed the girl as soon as he turned. She was a small girl with long black hair done into long pig-tails. He could see the symbol for Prefect on her sleeve but he didn't know her. She must have been either one of the newer ones, one that joined the group during his leave of absence. It was not unusual, considering the group had been without a leader for months, and needed some way to balance that fact. Without a face for the group, they needed to be stronger to enforce their goals.

Now he was sure word had not gotten around that he had returned, but it would soon enough, and then everyone would be coming to him like they did before he left. Being leader of the only police group in a school made his time precious and a lot of students would make demands of him, especially Battle Ground. He wasn't worried about them yet, but he knew that it was only a matter of time until they showed their faces and caused some real trouble for his prefects. It was times like these, the calm before the storm, that he needed to consolidate power and train his members. Soldiers were needed in the coming battle.

He noticed that she was staring at a hole in the ground, something that would be difficult to cause in the power training room. It was designed to resist most forms of damage, and to melt a hole in the floor was something of a feet in Jace's eyes. The room had never held back his destruction, but he manipulated gravity itself, and could do a whole lot of damage. He noticed her shrug and address him, but he kept his silence for a few seconds more.

"Having problems?" He asked simply after a brief silence. He couldn't have his prefects losing control of their powers. It would make them a weak link, and thus a target.