Welcoming Party

[Mr. Seran]

The estranged school grounds of Public High #774, of course High School was a loosely used term seeing as the district heads decided to combine a college to the school itself as some sort of flawed engineering to make this school in fact bigger than it needed to be. With all that responsibility on Mr. Durand's head. Dealing with students wasn't much of the problem seeing as he'd dealt with large lecture halls in his college days but it'd seem as though this was something a bit.... "bigger" the presses of a large assembly of utmost violent children from about the district. Gang members, Large sects of violent cultures, past Captains and dictators as well as abusers of the current system. Mr. Durand wasn't all too fond of abuse, he controlled the Pillar system with an iron fist, it created security.

"Students of Public High School #774 please report to the auditorium, thank you for your time and patience."

The loud speaker he'd project outward from his office so precariously placed at the atrium of the school. Louis the sun king did something similar with his kingdom made himself the heart so that all things had to pass through him at one point or another.

Given the time frame to fill up the crowded halls Thierry would place himself in his office bidding his time till it was filled with all bustles of noisy students along with those unfortunate meek ones bothered just enough by the noise to unnerve the power hungry beasts.

A tall, pale, and well dressed man entered Mr. Durand's office with something of a smug look. Thierry responded with a look of mild irritation at his presence itself.

"Mr. Durand, quite a pleasure to see you getting things wrapped up around here... I do hope that means you won't be failing us again."

He replied his sentiments with a stern glare at the pale man standing to bypass him entirely leaning at the door before pulling himself progressively through it.

"You'll have what you want... Agent Tyrone."

---

Entering the large auditorium, Mr. Durand seemed to be the only teacher there with enough courage mustered at this point to feel so free as to step out into the center, the eager, hungry eyes of the mass of students before him shifting towards his entrance whilst the teachers hiding away at the dark corners of the room looked up in a fashion of hope.

"Good Morning Students."

His voice was loud enough to be authoritative, calm and controlled, no one would suspect him the type of person who was necessarily strong, rather the type who was strong with words.

"Welcome to Public High School #774, chances are this will be your home for the next few years, or till you graduate. The latter being the less likely I'm sure. From what I see before me the lot of you remind me of my high school days; a bunch of over masculined teenagers boiling with raw emotion."

He dished out the insults quickly and in an elequant fashion sure to throw some of them off.

"Now that we have that aside I'm sure you're all dying to here of our student council or pillars I should say, as always it is a fight to determine the strongest fighter and I'm not one to break tradition, however this will not occur on campus.... If I find you fighting on campus for a pillar title and I catch you that will be a week in the correctional facility are we understood?"

He demanded swiftly understanding that most of these students had never gotten the privilege of a correctional facility. for good measure, in due time that would be a large factor to the future of this school.

[Odin Natalis]

Galen was at the auditorium at the and when he heard that everyone SHOULD go there...

...

wait what?

People were coming in now!?

Galen sat backstage, being the only tech, setting up a mic on stage and a few lights to light up the stage for who ever was going to talk.

Galen yawned abit and sighed.

This was going to be boring as hell.

Galen would lean in his chair and rub his chin and laugh abit, this was going to some what fun, as he heard the doors swing open and students start to barrage in like mindless dolts.

[Eliphas Rancros]

Eliphas was leaving the school grounds when the announcment came on and he just started walking as the students around him ran as fast as possible, "heh why the rush?" he asked a student passing and the student said" you must be new this durand he rules this place with a iron fist so you better not be late." and Eliphas replied "ok than" and eliphas started walking a little faster


At the auditoruim being the last one there he just walked up into the balcony and shoved someone over and said "move now" with a grim voice.the student almost ran but he didnt as he needed to keep some dignity "sure El" the student said.

El sat down and relaxed "what does this mr durand want?" and Eliphas started to daydream as mr durand would talk

[chantel]

Out of her limo she looked around the school. She sighed staring at the large school.

It looked like shit.

Well... all she had to do was think to herself "Either this or an all girl's school..."

Chantel walked into the school with her driver carrying her backpack. Her eyes and expression was full of disgust, yet they seemed to morph into something sweet when someone looked her way. She didn't want people thinking she was a bitch now wouldn't she?

"Students of Public High School #774 please report to the auditorium, thank you for your time and patience."

She rolled her eyes before turning to her driver with an innocent smile. <<Merci beaucoup, Chapin.>> she said while taking her bag from him as he walked back to the parking lot. Her eyes stared down at the little map of the school and she headed into the direction of the auditorium. There was nothing more fun than a school meeting.

Once she got in her eyes looked at all the students from different parts of the world. To anyone, Chantel would have looked like a very nice girl, but really deep in her thoughts she was dreading every moment of this.

She sat herself down and smiled at some of the students nearby giving a little innocent wave in their direction. The Headmaster didn't take long to enter or get straight to the point. She was gaining knew information; like the pillar system. She went to an all girls school and so there wasn't much brute force in their hierarchy... there was a lot of tears and backstabbing...

[Adam Silver]

Long enough were the times like these, those that made a face grimace. There was pain, but rather now it was disgust, and disappointment as Silver looked across the table towards his distinguished father. The man suited up in some perfectionist's attire. His focus on the newspaper and a munching motion on the eggo waffle in his hand the messy fashion of his gorging eating habits were the only thing that broke his otherwise perfect life. Silver stuck to the apple, one in which he made a large relishing sigh over the taste of it as he glared down in his father's direction who in other words continued his ignorance.

"I'm off to school." He stated vehemently storming off with his pack towards the door hovering there for his father to stop him and ask what was wrong. Though of course there was not even a budge to his position.

*Slam*

The door shut behind him as Adam jogged his way to school in an unrighteous fury. It'd only be so long before he exploded again, the streets weren't a safe place. Of course that was what people'd warned him, what they didn't say is that it was simply the other way around of course, the streets weren't safe from him.

The school was some ways away from his father's estates, it wasn't like a high stakes businessman would risk the well being of his reputation for his son's educational advancement. A scowl formed in place despising the treatment he was served, not that of other kids rather he was given ignorance, a pain worse than any other.

"Students of Public High School #774 please report to the auditorium, thank you for your time and patience."

A cocked brow and an ignorant smile as Silver shrugged his haunchy shoulders in a masculine sense drawing his pack over his shoulder carelessly to scour the walkways of campus. To show up first was simply uselessly irrational of him to do on a fist day of school.

"Hey babe, you head'in my way?" He winked to a busty teen who was surely a good year older than him and probably had that much more experience with other men. Of course she'd yet to meet him that was.

"Fuck off playboy."

A small grin formed in place on his features sending her a quick wink. Honestly it wasn't a loss yet not until you had given up on things often there was a greater purpose to being effortlessly stubborn in action.

"I don't think you understand the gravity of things, I'm new, and arm candy is always a bonus to my potentially crippling self-esteem." He said with a small charming laugh making sport of the kids already in a rush to the gym for a healthy seat where their eyes wouldn't be strained.

"I guess it couldn't hurt to meet new people." The bouncy, giggly voice replied with Silver thinking quite honestly that once again this was just some sport.

"Alright, I'm Adam by the way.." He offered his arm not taking no for an answer as he gripped around her waist pulling her along in a controlling sense towards the gym where he carried himself up to the dead center of the amphitheater playing on her association with the upper class students.

As for the big man up front and his talk of them all being testosterone driven animals who couldn't keep their fists from exploding loose. He was absolutely right, Silver was a bustling beast ready to be set loose, and rather than play for a title in words sense he was more so interested in fighting for it as a ploy, letting students try their ways against him. It was just a bitting show of strength, and he sure as hell had a bit of his own.

"Amen!"

Adam would shout out loud applauding slightly expecting their to be one or the other; Silence or spontaneous laughter.

[knightmare13]

"nice enthusiasm my friend." Douglas said as he looked at the applauding boy, "But I believe we have a few more minutes before we're told to do that." Douglas threw in a smirk to keep up the cocky attitude he was portraying, 'god I hate this voice.' Shane thought as he listened to himself. Laying lazily back he watched around the auditorium to look at the students sizing them up and seeing which will be a hinderance or may help him later on. The loud one piqued an interest, 'He should be easy enough to find info about.' taking another look he prepared for whatever this guy is coming up with.

[Mr. Seran]

"Amen!"

There it was, he'd expected at least one of the students to step out of line and make themselves a big show. Perhaps it was one of the seniors looking to his friends for attention but once more it was just another new face he didn't recognize. Then again Mr. Durand had a spotless memory and read files just before bed.... they put him to sleep.

"But I believe we have a few more minutes before we're told to do that."

Mr. Durand turned a curious glance to the other who'd spoken up in his defense. So he was to establish who these youth's were and of course who they'd become was to be determined through the next few events to unfold. The first undoubtedly a stubborn prick ready for any sense of attention the other something of a guy who played the middle ground as to not get hit aback. Yes thats what he must've been. Wanted to play to everyone's needs. Admirable, but he'd come to realize soon enough there was no middle ground.

"Encourageable behavior Mr. Silver. If you don't want detention or rather something worse I'd suggest you sit down."

A subtle eye towards the other boy as well not feeling the need to repeat himself but should either of them begin to make yet another scene he'd be sure to set the boys into their places soon enough.

"As you know the system will keep you down, as will I." He began slowly pacing forward to the stand before him resting palms met with gold cuff links as they hit the wood with a small clink.

"There are ways around that, and for those of you interested you may come to my office to discuss the matter, as for the rest of you this meeting is to make sure that you know your place. This school has a way of beating the shit out of you. And under me I will see that it is so."

Mr. Durand scuffled his beard lightly before once more opening his mouth to speak.

"Are there any questions?"

[Cain]

The library. Ah, what a serene place indeed. It was a great change, so to say. Very little people ventured into the library, after all. It was the place for bookworms and nerds, people who hardly fought nor knew how to. As such, very little fights occurred here. And not to mention that it was looked over by quite a strict librarian only made it a less appealing place for troublemakers. And as much of a troublemaker that Cain actually was, he was also aware of why he had come all the way here from New York in the first place. He was not going to waste this opportunity to finally graduate.

The Junior sat in solitude upon one of the study tables that the school had gracefully provided those who came to school for the proper purpose, his World History text book laid out in front of him. What chapter? Well, at that moment, as Cain remembered the teacher to have started from, it was the Rise of Nazism. Such a topic that Cain was somewhat new to, not having covered it back in 552. He knew that if he wanted to keep his grades up, he was going to catch up with the rest of his class. He only then realised how slack classes in #552 was.

"Students of Public High School #774 please report to the auditorium, thank you for your time and patience."

Cain's head shot up. Who was that supposed to be? Cain looked at the few other students in the library, who seemed to flinch in their seat at the announcement, before scurrying to pack up and move to the auditorium. Cain's question was answered then. Who else could it be, having such control and authority over the student body? It was #774's Headmaster, and if Cain's prior research on the school was right, the man's name was Thierry Durand. Cain sighed, closing his text book as he calmly placed it in his bag, before picking it up and leaving. He was clad in a white shirt, buttoned up, untucked and sleeves folded up to the elbow. A pair of blue fitting denim jeans and a pair of dark blue Nike Air sneakers completed his attire.

It did not take long for the Junior to find the auditorium, considering the large flow of students that was moving towards the same destination. And following the flow, Cain would sit himself down, unfortunately, behind Adam Silver. The Headmaster came in then, and Cain only realised it when everyone's head had turned towards the same direction. His emerald eyes followed the male as he walked up to the stage, his pace full of authority and demand for respect indeed.

Well, he was certainly one smooth talker. His introduction was simple and attention-catching; not to mention emotionally impactful upon a few sensitive students. Cain kept his eyes on the man, as he continued. The pillar system? Ah, yes, Cain had been wondering about that. Who the hell were the current pillars? He continued then, saying that a test of some sort would occur to decide the pillars. And then, a word caught his attention. Correctional Facility? Cain's eyes widened, the Junior having a small flashback of his time in 552. The most painful experience back then was the explosion that destroyed the facility, throwing Cain off his feet and into a pile of debris; not the best place to land on.

A scene snapped Cain back into reality, the boy in front of him catching more attention than anyone would enjoy, drawing a grin from Cain. Interesting and funny fellow. He was soon silenced by another male and the Headmaster, as the man inquired for any questions. Cain took a deep breathe. He was one of the newest students in the school, but from his speech, Cain figured he was not the only one in his batch that had just came in. And he had a lot of questions in his mind then. Taking another deep breathe, he decided to pull his guts in and finally make a scene for himself. He just needed to know a few more things.

He raised his hand.

And as soon as he was addressed to, he would yell out his question.

"If not in campus, then where? Where will these fights for the pillarship title occur? I'm sure most of the people here are dying to know."

The matter of the Correctional Facility would come afterwards. For now, he was more focused on the main topic of this meeting.

[Eliphas Rancros]

Feb 7, 2010 1:10:34 GMT -5 Cain said:

"If not in campus, then where? Where will these fights for the pillarship title occur? I'm sure most of the people here are dying to know."

Eliphas had wondered the same question too, he wanted to be in a nice spot in power and he tryed to restrain himself for avoidance of going to the correctional facility or even worse, but Eliphas blurted
"yes were will these fights for power take place?" Eiliphas got ready for some other type of punishment for later but now was a time for questions for him.

"All of us should be wondering this!" Eliphas yelled while standing
he continued saying" Doesn't everyone want to be at the highest part of the pillar?! well we should know when we could fight for this power and become what everyone loves or hates while others envy him or her for being at the top when they couldn't!" Eliphas had kept standing looking straight at Durand and he wouldnt even flinch at the scowl he would be getting from mr durand.

[Adam Silver]

"Encourageable behavior Mr. Silver. If you don't want detention or rather something worse I'd suggest you sit down."

Adam merely made a snort of a remark fluttering himself back to his seat seeing that his moment of attention had indeed faded if only lasting for a moment but it'd seem as though he were the only big attention grabbing student out there at the present the rest seemed so calm or even passive as a state of being. Boring. His only thought in fact was that, a dull throbbing expression of those who found themselves turned away by the instinctual nature of conflict. Something by nature he was good at.

"If not in campus, then where? Where will these fights for the pillarship title occur? I'm sure most of the people here are dying to know."

His head cocked to the side noting the boy speaking out against what was currently being distinguished as "law" by the current authority and justly being only one he held so very minuscule power over the lot of them. But it was a curious question indeed, how was he going to claim power seeing as though campus fights were banned. Of course that who was going to supervise that seeing as he'd already kicked one kids ass on school grounds.

"Agreed." ah a man of few words.

[Mr. Seran]

Mr. Durand's cautious gaze taking note of the surrounding populace finding them to be meek individuals under the current words, perhaps much like college students they only listened to what was being stated that anything beyond those ideals or means was something a bit strange and new to them. Or perhaps he'd yet to endure the right capacities that filled their inquiries?

A hand jotted up amongst the crowd, "Yes?" Thierry didn't know the boy's name off hand but he had a photographic memory and would remember the face for future reference.

"If not in campus, then where? Where will these fights for the pillarship title occur? I'm sure most of the people here are dying to know."

Ah there was a question he'd need to search inside himself as well. Quite honestly Thierry had gone into this ordeal suspecting that students would fight regardless of terrain or rules he'd instated, that was how the other school's he'd managed had dealt with such occurances. But thinking further upon the issues he debated. If he gave them a place to duel it out essentially he could control the students from his high perch or rather his superiors would tend to their masses.

"Good question and for that I will instate a tournament, In three days our gym here will host the Pillar Tournament, the victor will receive the title."

A firm smile set unto his features knowing that regardless of whom the pillar was he'd be seeing them soon enough, to deal with the populace one needed to indeed be underhanded at times.

*Ring*

"Now I'll be leaving this sign up sheet for the tournament here, to take part you must sign up otherwise go off to your classes."

---

Pillar Tournament Sign-ups:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

---

+1 Exp to all participants in this thread make your exits

[Eliphas Rancros]

(ooc: ok so just rp signing up and leaving eh?)

Eliphas got through the line pushing people out of the way and such but Eliphas got to the front and signed up for the tournament first, "yes!" eliphas said congrajulating himself as he left through the door noticing mr durand as he left and he said "thanks sir" with a smile and the fact that he started to run so he could start training.

(kay 1 exp ftw!)

[Cain]

Agreements were thrown from all over the auditorium, all of which Cain utterly ignored nor was grateful for. The only voice that he wanted and needed to hear was Mr. Durand's. The others'? Well, all their words were, at that moment, pretty much noise to the disturbed Junior. The Correctional Facility had triggered a somewhat paranoia in the young male. It was probably cause of the Facility that #552 itself was forced to close down, after it was breached, releasing some of the hallway's most dangerous fighters. And to think, that breach had been caused by an powerful outside organisation too. What a disaster.

"Good question and for that I will instate a tournament, In three days our gym here will host the Pillar Tournament, the victor will receive the title."

A tournament? In the gym? Cain raised an eyebrow, utterly amused at how the decision had been made. He had expected something more diplomatic, like voting, but it seemed that violence was, in a way, encouraged in this school. Cain grinned in immeasurable satisfaction with the Headmaster's answer. Now, not only would he have a chance to face off against the strongest of the school, but he would also be given a chance to reward himself a title that would only be filled with challenges in the future, challenges that would indeed provide Cain with loads of excitement.

"Now I'll be leaving this sign up sheet for the tournament here, to take part you must sign up otherwise go off to your classes."

And with that, the Headmaster took his leave, leaving behind a large piece of paper upon a notice board at the feet of the stage. So, this was where he would sign-up, huh? The tournament was three days. Was Cain even ready for this? Ah, hell, being who he was, Cain was always ready for a fight. Of course, the Junior would stay on his seat first. There was no rush. The auditorium's aisles were full of people going towards either direction; some were leaving, others were heading towards the notice board.

Cain would wait until the auditorium was considerably clear. His next class was History. Not that exciting, really. Cain could waste time here. As soon as it seemed reasonable, Cain would finally get up from his seat and sign his name upon the list.

Cain Aurelius.

He grinned.

[Adam Silver]

A smooth grin appearing on his face, The result was just what he'd wanted yes. More fighting to suit his ever growing hunger, he'd prove his worth Adam Silver was by far the strongest at this school or at least self imposed. With a smooth chuckle and an arrogant build to himself Silver crossed the descending bleachers before hitting the base floor and signing his name across the sheet.

Adam Silver.

Eying up his competition he noticed the boy who'd spoken up. That was his first target, having not seen the boy fight yet he was going to want his first chance to test that might and thusly the might of the school.

[chantel]

Some students spoke out of place, but Chantel nearly ignored them. Then she heard more news of the pillarship. She had no interest in being a pillar because she was never a fan of authority. It would be a little interesting though... getting people's trust and all that jazz...

Chantel stood and approached the sign-up. She wrote her name down with her personal pink pen before heading out the door. She needed to get back to class and do something more productive. Though she might skip who knows... depending what class she had next. Chantel took out her schedule and read that she had math next.

Fuck that noise.

Now she was off to go get ice cream. Screw school.