Open Finished Balancing Act

Shinji, coming from the woods area that was just past the courtyard, had finally emerged from his training spot. His body felt tired and exhausted but all he needed was a quick breather before he got back to his training. As he walked through the area looking for a shaded place to sit, a breeze rolled by quickly and moved Shinji's hair from his face. His legs felt numb though he walked perfectly fine. he tried to hide the fact that he was doing a little training in the woods from people. he was trying his best avoid any type of confrontation with anyone that he may not like. Sitting alone was better than making enemies, especially since this is only his second day at the academy.

Soon enough, Shinji came across a bench with the best shade in the courtyard. It was next to another bench that held a kid that seemed to be completely out of it and asleep. "He must have been pretty tired to come out here and sleep instead of going to the comfort of his dorm room." Shinji thought to himself as he looked over to the kid. Shinji sat down making a slight groaning sound as if he was an old man. He sat furthest away from the other bench that sat the resting kid. Constantly wondering what the kid could have been doing to make him so tired that he would fall asleep outside, Shinji began to stare at him as he ran through his thoughts, the possible reasons for sleeping on a bench. "Maybe he was exercising? Or maybe he just didn't get any sleep last night. Honestly, he might just hate his dorm room." Shinji thought in his head. There were so many different possibilities that he could have thought of but none seemed to fit the bill quite right. Shinji looked away still wondering what the kid was doing. Little did he know, though, that the kid was using his abilities at this point.

As Shinji sat on the bench still in his own thoughts, he felt a small electromagnetic disturbance somewhere around him. It was possible that someone was using their powers near him but to make a disturbance such as this one, they had to have quite the unusual power at their own disposal. Shinji looked ahead seeing nothing but heard a slight rustling of both small pebbles and leaves. He figured that it was nothing but the wind carrying them at its own will and brushed that thought off to the side. Still oblivious to the presence of another near him, Shinji sat still in silence.

Soon enough, a pebble was tossed by something. It landed near Shinji's feet and it was rather hard to not notice something that was picked up and tossed out of no where. Looking up to the direction of the pebble, Shinji noticed a haze of something standing before him. he couldn't make out what it was but he new it was rather strange. Standing up and moving towards the hazy figure, Shinji said aloud to himself, "What is that?" The figure spoke but all Shinji heard was static in his ears as if he was listening to the interference that a radio would have. By now Shinji had concluded that this figure had to have been some kind of entity that another student had made. But who?

Shinji walked up to it and reached out to touch it but stopped himself because he didn't know what the effects of touching it would be. Was this a person? He thought as he stood directly in front of it. Shinji didn't have the ability to see into another world or what not but because he had the power over lightning and electric fields in general, he could see and hear things with distinct magnetic frequencies both high and low. But this ability wasn't developed enough to be able to fully understand how to use it. After a moment, Shinji circled the hazy figured and ended up back in his original place. "Is someone there? What are you?" He asked as if he would get a direct response from whoever or whatever it was.

Shinji took his time observing what may have been a student or maybe something strange that was happening with the island itself. he was new to the island so he wouldn't know if things like this was normal but given that this island was full of abnormal people, this wouldn't be a surprise to most. So why was it so odd for Shinji to see? The hazy figure stayed still for a while before shifting or moving to make a move. Shinji stayed still, he figured if it was trying to hurt him, it would have already tried to do so by now. Waiting to see what it was trying to do, Shinji crossed his arms and looked around. It didn't seem like anyone else was really around or even paying an attention to what Shinji was doing.

Soon after crossing his arms and scanning the place for others, Shinji saw that the hazy had found a few pebbles. What was it going to do with said pebbles was only to be seen in the next few moments when it got Shinji's attention by tossing a pebble his way. It didn't make its way to hitting him but it landed in front of him. The next pebble was aimed at the sleeping guy on the bench. The pebble did hit him, however it was soft and landed on his stomach. Shinji looked at the guy sleeping and thought to himself on why the entity would throw it at him.

Walking over to him, Shinji lightly pushed the guy trying to wake him up. "Hey, hey! Get up." Shinji said loudly trying to wake him up. Failing at every attempt to do so, Shinji had finally realized what may have been happening. "Wait, is this you?" Shinji said with his left brow raised while looking at the haze. "How could I be so retarded?" He said aloud while holding his head and smiling slightly. "I assume there is a reason you aren't going back to your body, right? I wonder what that reason is..." Shinji said talking to the figure.

Shinji asked a question aloud to the entity that was before him even though there was no way that he could have gotten a response. Shinji didn't care though, obviously there was something off about this and he wanted to know what it was no matter if he was wasting his own personal time but still he wasn't really doing anything. The entity then spelled out "10ms" on the ground in stone before Shinji could do anything. "Hmm, 10 minutes? I wonder what happens after 10 minutes of us just sitting here doing nothing. Shinji went back to his bench and sat comfortably without moving. He sighed and thought about it all. "I guess I can wait here for about that amount of time. I needed the rest anyways." Shinji said without looking at anything but the back of his eyelids. Well a little rest never hurt anyone.

Shinji sat on the bench silently and without any movement really at all. He looked at the hazy blur periodically so that he would notice any changes in its appearance or behavior. Any changes at all really. But after a while there was no type of movement at all until suddenly it moved without warning quickly and seemingly frantically. To Shinji, it seemed to be in a hurry. This only seemed as so because of its lack of movement before as well as it moving without any type of warning. Shinji sat up a bit to see a little closer to see what it was doing without much luck.

Quickly returning to its original position before Shinji, it left a leaf next to him. Shinji looked down to the wide leaf and read the writing that was carved into it. "I need 10 minutes more to get back. Dumb astral projection thing." It said. Now that Shinji knew what was happening for the most part he could just sit there in peace as they waited for the 10 minutes to pass. There was really nothing more to do or say now that he knew everything could be answered after a small amount of time. So once again, Shinji sat back on the bench and crossed his arms.