Annual Boys v. Girls Snow War!

[Noam Goldstein]

Noam was on his way across the courtyard, the curly-haired teenager whistling to himself. He was on his way to study, mandated by his parents, who wanted nothing more for him to finally succeed in school. However, he resisted, seeing as he probably wouldn't need school very much if he was to pursue his dreams and become a famous actor or something. And actors didn't need to remember the order of presidents, from 1 to 44, unless their character was saying it in a movie. Sure, he probably needed to get into acting school of some sort, but truth be told, Noam honestly didn't want to go to any more school, and he simply wanted to go straight into the theatre (or film industry) right from school.

His thoughts were interrupted by a snowball, thrown by none other than Riley O'Connor, one of the girls who challenged his "authority". He made a face, and retaliated, moving over to the other guys, smirking.

"Dudes, so the fight's today?" he questioned in typical Noam-style. "Sweet. Lemme throw some. I've got the best aim ever. And I can fly."

[Lani Hunter]

Lani ducked a return attack and quickly found himself just shielding his head as snow pelted him. Well that’s what he got. He hid behind a nearby tree and nodded giving the guy a smile. “No prob,” He peaked out from behind his shelter and shook his head to get the snow out of his hair. He didn’t really know any of the guys on his side but they were all a part of the same army due to the situation so in solidarity they were bound. At least for the snow war. Lani periodically threw a snowball in the way of the girls as the others tried to build a fort. The guy who had been knocked down seemed to be very much on top of things. He also seemed to be getting really into the snow war. He seemed to have taken over the role of commander spouting about order.

“What do you think I’m doing?” Lani glanced at Commander and then glanced across the yard at the other blonde. Well he was obviously the telekinetic one, he sent a sympathetic smile the other blonde’s way and went to do as he had been doing. Lani didn’t know the guy playing Commander but he figured that it wasn’t really a secret that he was a telekinetic. It was still a little odd that someone knew that about him and he didn’t know him. Oh well, Lani just kept throwing snowballs concentrating them on those throwing at the two making the fort. There was only so much he could do to defer the fire which wouldn’t make himself a target. Commander left the kid alone to build the fort and Lani sighed stepping out of his shelter to draw fire away from the lone builder now. He was quick and fired off just as many that came his way but nevertheless he got hit quite a few times and ducked back into the cover of the trees.

Luckily someone else showed up to help. If memory served that was Cameron. Rom? That was an interesting name. Lani shrugged not really concerned about what Commander’s name was. He was too busy dodging snow and throwing it back. Lani glanced across. A blizzard? He didn’t think his power worked that way. He had never actually tried to use his power for anything other than objects and he really didn’t want to bring his power into this, that could get out of hand really fast. He just shook his head at Commander. He was really getting into this. Lani wrinkled his nose a little, they shouldn’t resort to name calling. They would just have to win. Lani had plenty of friends on the other side and he shared the sentiment that calling them whores was not acceptable. “Let’s win this thing, not degrade them,” Lani chided lightly and with that there were no hard feelings dashed after Commander as he rushed past. Thinking back to the girl he had had the snowball fight with earlier he stole her trick and threw a snowball into the tree above them and adding a little force behind it with his power he rocked the tree and they were dumped with snow.

[Cameron Osiris]

"Noamy!" Cam belted, like his heart had been set on fire from the very sight of his roommate. He put his arm around his friend, having great timing as usual. Cam was pretty much as useful right now as someone making out in the middle of a war zone. But hey if there was time for that, there was time for being silly. Cam wasn't really that concerned about winning, he just wanted to have fun.

"Best aim ever? Good one," Cam said, kneeling in front of their fort, keeping his eyes peeled for any attacks. He smirked a bit, and playing with the light, it bounced off the snow and into Elisia's eyes. "If you can't throw, blind 'em!"

[Noah Washington]

A snowball fight? Was it even fair that he joined? Noah pulled the beanie onto his head and ran out. He didn't even bother with a jacket, just the long sleeve shirt would do. He was used to the cold and couldn't really stay drenched for long if that even happened. He also sort of doubted he'd get it many times, if at all.

When he went out, he saw Cam building a fort with some other guy. Romeo was there being Romeo. Noah ran over to the fort, ducking behind it and running his hand along the ground and up the wall, instantly fortifying it with more snow. Hey, snow was just frozen water after all. "Hey, how're we going? We winning yet?" He called out to whoever was willing to answer.

[Appoline Meian]

This whole thing had been a madhouse since the moment they stepped foot into it. Almost immediately, Appoline lost sight of her sister. Right after that, it was as if a target had been painted onto the short Japanese girl, and her powers had activated in self-defense, flinging her to and fro and she dodged being hit. Suffice to say, by the time she'd ended up on the other side of a snow barricade, she was out of breath, hurting a little, and quite possibly the only person who hadn't gotten hit.


But, she had to admit, despite the fact that she'd been using her abilities... this was kind of fun.


As she peeked over the edge of the drift, a snowball bounced off of it and caused her to duck with a small squeak of surprise. Appoline hesitated for a moment, then scooped up her own snowball with her gloves, peeking over the edge once more. A boy on the other side caught her eye as he seemed to shift the falling of light on the snow to blind another girl.


"That's cheating!" she called out, throwing the ball at him to break his concentration. She wasn't a very good shot, but there was always the chance that it would hit anyway.

[Romeo Buckland]

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For the record, the snowball that almost hit Cameron’s face came from Romeo. Yup, that’s the Irish boy for you, unashamed to hit one of his own. (The first snowball fired came from him remember?). He could’ve gotten Cam smack in the face too, had it not been for the inopportune appearance of a blonde girl with butterfly wings, making him throw the snowball prematurely as he himself had to hide from her onslaught (she had like five or so balloons in hand).

“Stop trying to make yourself look pretty Cam! It’ll never happen!” shouted Romeo from behind a bush, head moving rapidly to evade the snow assault, “I mean seriously, as long as I’m around, they’ll never notice you. Way too hot for you bro.” He said with a grin, chugging two snowballs each to his assailants.

The Irish boy did have a point, though probably not exactly what he meant. Like, with him barking orders here and there, he’s practically giving his position away to every girl involved.

“Oh don’t be jealous. If it was you leading us, we’d be screwed already,” he yelled back, diving under a make-shift trench, “And not in the good way. Remember I that I had to teach you what a condom is for?” He was about to make a rude gesture but was (fortunately) interrupted by a snowball that hit the back of his neck. And boy was that cold. (Some of it even went in his jacket and down his back). “Telekinetic, where’s my cover? Discussing battle plans with Pretty Boy Blonde here.” His tone was a little irritated, but the slight jolliness near the end of it and his previous banter with Cam should be enough to tell them that he’s all but serious with this.

Speaking of taking things a little too seriously, he couldn’t help but laugh when he got scolded by his teammates/allies not once, but twice because of that little ‘whore’ comment. “Pfft. Mates, whatever. All is fair in love and war!” he shouted. He would say that he didn’t really mean ‘whore’ as in the bad thing (like how most people nowadays would call their best friend ‘bitch’ or something), but it’s pretty out of character for him. And besides, he could care less if people thought he was being so worked out over something so trivial. He’s having fun and that’s all that matters.

“Twerp, Slut-meron, how’s the fort coming?” He saw a new guy come in and heard something about flying and aim. “A flier? Great. I never thought I’d see the day. We need aerial support, stat!” He pointed to the numerous flying girls which had been threatening to pelt him with snow ever since he began barking orders. He was beginning to think that the Y chromosome had some special genetic disposition to not favour a mutation that allowed flight with the way the ratios were looking. (Not exactly the same words he’d use to say his thoughts, but close enough). “And where’s my blizzard cover?”

[Min Hee Wang]

Min-hee leaned against a wall made of snow and branches, perhaps she had gone a little overboard with her fort, but it was fun still all the same. Her dark hair was pinned down to her head with the fabric of a knit cap. The flaps of which flopped on her head each time she would peak around the corner to peg a student in the face with a snow ball. When else would she have been able to get away with such a thing?

She laughed as she was hit with snowballs in return, not trying to hard to avoid all of them, it was more fun that way. At least to her, "Oi! Beating up on the trainers isn't going to help you advance any faster!" She exclaimed with a series of laughs afterward. She grabbed a wad of snow packing it in her hands.

It was then that she saw the familiar faces entering the chaos that was the snow ball fight. She herself had participated as a student so this was not something that came as a surprise to her. She watched as the familiar 'snow' woman ran by. A grin spreading her lips knowing well that vincent would be following after. And when she spotted him, she let him have it, launching a decently sized snow-ball toward his face. "OUSHI!" she exclaimed.

[Cameron Osiris]

"Remember how the ones you have weren't big enough for me?!" Cam said back to Romeo, winking though it probably wouldn't be seen. There was too much going on anyways.

"Everyone else is using their powers!" Cam retorted, but it was all in good fun. Anyone would say something was cheating if it was in their favour.

Noah had joined in and Cam made more snowballs - obviously the fort was in good hands. "Hey lover boy, how nice for you to show up," he said, chastising Noah like he was late or something. "We're probably winning," he said, watching Romeo running around like a dumbass.

"Why don't you come over here and see?" Cam hollered, a mischievous grin on his face. They could still win against the girls and take Romeo out, right?

[Noam Goldstein]

Noam ruffled Cam's hair jokingly, laughing at the nickname. He should've been used to it, but every time it was used, he couldn't help but be amused at the strange charm behind it. "Cammy, I knew you'd be here! Is Callie here? I'm gonna get her," he announced, smirking, though he intended on dodging the snowballs coming from the girls, although his agility while flying still wasn't the greatest. "Of course my aim is amazing. I used to play tee ball when I was really little," he joked. "And throwing things is fun."

"Aerial coverage? I'm on it," announced Noam, wriggling out of Cam's grip, and busying himself with making snowballs, ignoring the premade ones. He launched himself into the air, hovering a good fifteen feet above the ground, and made his way over to the girls hovering above, pelting one in the stomach, another in the face, and another in the shoulder. Quickly, he dove down with the last snowball, hitting Min-hee on the head, though it was lighter than the force he'd used against the other girls.

[Dr. Nik Kenjutsushi]

Escaping through the middle of the fight may not have been the best idea, but at least her husband was getting pelted with more snow than she was. Grinning back over her shoulder, the pale woman dashed through the madness, a white figure on white ground. Apparently it made her harder to his, because she was only struck once before she heard a familiar voice crying out a familiar word.


Turning, the doctor saw someone she thought she'd never see again - Min Hee Wang, a student at Eisai from about ten years ago. The girl had transferred away shortly after she'd met her (Nik had been a physician at the hospital the girl frequented), but that didn't mean she didn't remember her. Scurrying back behind the makeshift wall, she grinned happily at the younger woman.

"It's good to know I'm not alone," she laughed, bundling up another snowball. Glancing up, she noticed that the dark and tall figure of Vincent was a prime target for both sides, and he was busy retaliating at anyone who hit him while kneeling on the ground. "On three?" she asked, a mischievous gleam in her blue eyes.

[Vincent Meian]

Perhaps it hadn't been a good idea to wear his normal attire in today's weather. Being tall and wearing all black seemed to make people think you were a prime target for a snowball fight, after all.


As Vincent had chased the school doctor into the warzone, he was immediately pelted on all sides. Not one to be outdone, he slid to the ground (landing somewhere near the boy's side but still not in cover) and began throwing snowballs back, a sharp grin on his normally stoic face. One hit a girl in the air and another managed to hit a boy who was running, but he cared little. At this point, he'd lost sight of Nik.


However...


SPLAT! A snowball hit him in the back of the head as he was looking around, barely preempted by a familiar call of "OUSHI!" Oh, that girl has quite the courage, he mused, spinning about with a snowball immediately, firing back at the familiar shape of one Min Hee Wang. There was too much going on for him to track, but anytime he threw a snowball, someone else hit him and he fired back, lending to a neverending cycle of flying snow.


He never even saw what Nik and Min were planning.

[Min Hee Wang]

A laugh escaped her lips as the snowball hit the man in the back of the head. She yelped out as she was taken by surprise, his snowball catching her hat, knocking it clean off her head. Which she didn't mind really, but it was still a hit she had to retaliate for. She ducked backd own behind the wall. Breathing out a fogged breath as she nodded toward the woman. "Lets do this." She stated patting a few snowballs as she waited for the right time.

"you're from alone. It's good to see you're still alive after having to deal with him for so many years. " she teased. Though it was no time for that this was war ! She nodded firmly. Giving a mischievous grin to the other woman as she counted them down, "One." She leaned toward the wall more so, turning to face it, "two." She was now crouched, ready to pop upward, "Three!" She would exclaim as she popped over the wall. Slinging snow balls in Vincent's direction.

[Dr. Nik Kenjutsushi]

Nik couldn't help but snicker at the retaliatory ball of fluff that knocked Min's hat from her head, ducking away from the explosion of white even as she made more snowballs. "He may be a trying man, but at least he's a wonderful cook," the doctor stated dryly. "If he wasn't, I would have starved a long time ago."


The white woman shared the grin and counted with her in her mind, standing on 'three' and hurling her own snowballs at her husband. The look of utter joy one her face was compounded when he seemed to be taken completely by surprise and dove behind a tree, yelling at them in Japanese. The look on his face, however, was one of dangerous amusement, and he pointed up at a boy who was flying over head and ready to rain the white orbs down on everyone.


"Duck!" she cried, hiding back behind the mini-fort.

[Vincent Meian]

There was no warning, only the immediate onslaught of snowballs.


The trainer cried out in dismay, knocked off his feet by the sudden barrage. Between the firing orbs, he saw that Min and Nik had teamed up and were firing snowballs at him with unerring precision. Quickly, the tall man in black bolted behind a tree, the last of the orbs hitting its trunk as he caught his breath and brushed snow from his hair and eyes. With a fierce grin, he looked back around the tree and called out, ["You both realize that this means war! And I am not alone!"]


He pointed directly up into the sky at Noam, then called out to the boy directly. "There are two women behind that drift! Quickly, before they resupply!"

[Lani Hunter]

Lani tossed a few snowballs across enemy lines and ducked himself behind a tree again. He ignored most of the banter going on around him and worked on the task at hand. He was bad at the whole covering thing. He was throwing them back but he wasn’t drawing fire at all away from Commander. Lani needed to get closer. He slid across the ground dropping behind the shelter that the one kid had been working on. He wasn’t going to be much help here so he got himself as low as he could to avoid being hit until he was safe behind another bush closer. He threw a few snowballs giving away his position and having to hide behind the barely leaved bush.

Lani sighed giving Commander an annoyed look. He dug into the snow and blinked as he felt something else. A rather substantial branch. Quickly stripping it of leaves and leaving the long straight piece behind he smiled his ideas whirring. He couldn’t move it himself but it was no problem for his power. “Here’s your cover,” Lani said sliding the thing toward Romeo and lifting it with his power. It was big and it was heavy but his mind was spinning with an idea and the branch started to spin in midair like a propeller. His eyes watched it carefully making sure that it wasn’t getting to close to anyone nor getting out of control. He had enough free space in his mind to toss Commander a cocky smile before focusing closely. It spun faster and faster until it’s lines blurred in the air and snowballs broke into useless powder as they tried to pass through.

Now all Lani needed was to not get hit by a snowball himself and not be distracted in anyway and he would be able to keep the defense going. Lani moved his mindset into defensive instead of offensive and got lost in the motion he was setting the branch into. Focus, he told himself letting his eyes slide shut. This was the handicap of his power. He had to spend so much time focusing that he didn’t have enough brain power left for the rest of his body so he was pretty much completely in tune with the branch. At least he was until a snowball caught him in the face. Knocked back a little by the force and knocked back into his body by the sudden cold the branch providing cover wobbled and went flying as if flung from a slingshot. “Watch out!” Lani had sense enough to shout at the general populous as his power struggled to get a hold of the wild branch. Ok, using his power, that was going back under the 'bad idea' category.