Sunshine and Shadows

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On a flat section of roof of the part of the Academy dedicated to high schoolers laid Nyota, with her back flat on the ground and as her front faced the sun with only the nearby solar panels for company. Today was her first day of school, and all that she felt that she did not belong here. Sure one half the school consisted of magical fairy tail creatures while the other half something you find on the Sci Fy channel but that wasn't the reason. All her life people had avoided her but now... no one seemed to have given her so much as though as they walked by her. She was still being largely ignored but this time its different, this time it was all passive and not active. As strange as it was, she was somehow normal here even with her glowing eyes. In fact more people seem more freaked out about her missing arm than her glowing eyes despite the later being far more unusual among normal human standards. But now she was no longer working with normal human standards... she was now boldly going to where Nyota has never gone to before: being normal?

Nyota groaned as she contemplated how she ended up in this predicament in the first place. In fact, she wasn't entirely sure how she ended up on the roof in the first place. Didn't matter... she wasn't hungry and she had no interest with being around strange new people. If anything it was a bit of a relief for her being all alone brought some sense of normalcy. The sun burning bright overhead looked all so inviting... like the beckoning glow of a warm fireplace. Oh how she desired to walk on the sun... a desire she she knows is not her own but it doesn't stop her yearning to return there... even if she had never set foot on the sun before. Funny how inherited memories work even if they come from some long dead sun bird with three feet. For most people staring at the sun for this long would have caused them to go blind but for someone like her... it was no longer an issue for her. Thankfully for her, there was no one to her disturb her and her solitude.

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James walked through the courtyard, a yawn escaped his mouth, TIRED WORM! the Shadow screamed into his mind, he ignored the parasite. He looked up toward the sky, the sun was beautiful today.

He focused the shadow appeared, covering his body, he may hate the shadow, but he loved the powers. He began teleporting from wall to wall using his shadow tentacles to climb. DISGUSTING HUMAN USING MY POWER! YOUR CORPSE WILL ROT BEFORE ME!, Oh Shut Up, You Parasitic Bastard.

He reached the top and flipped over onto the roof, he thought he was alone for a sec, when he noticed a girl, lying down and looking up at the sun. He saw her eyes, like miniature suns, Whoa.....YES GO FLIRT YOU HORMONAL CHILD YOUR DEATH WILL BE SOON. He ignored the Shadow and reverted to his normal form, he approached the girl, "ugh..hey there. I don't think we've met, I'm James."
 

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And... just like that her moment of solitude was no more. Whatever starry eye daze Nyota experienced was now gone as a boy looked down upon. Whatever he might of said to her was now lost to Nyota as she was caught off guard by this intruder.

"THE HELL!" she shrieked as she crawled a few paces away from the dark haired boy and scrambled to her feet.

Once on her toes she quickly extends her right arm out to the mysterious boy, her palm extended as if she was ordering him to halt.

"The heck are you sneaking up on me like that! ARE YOU TRYING TO START SOMETHING?!" she barks, her glowing eyes narrow like heated daggers.
 

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He blinked, definitely not the way he wanted to meet someone, he heard the shadow laughing into his mind, CANT EVEN PROPERLY GREET SOMEONE!, Oh shut up, at least I remember who I am. He looked to the girl, "sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I just thought I'd say hello."

This wasn't going well, "I just like coming up here...so I came up as always..and I found you here..." he trailed off realizing how wierd he sound, the Shadow laughing into his head. He sighed, "listen, I didn't mean to freak you out. I'm James."
 

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Nyota continues to give this James fellow a nasty glare as she continues to judge him silently. Nyota lets out snort through her nostrils and lowered her arm once she concluded that he was mostly harmless. She however watches the boy warily.

"Hrmmm... fine... hello... whatever. This is MY spot now. So its best for you to just beat it already James."

Ugh... annoying she thought. Even on the roofs there were students who seemed to have cropped up out of nowhere. She had hoped that he would just relocated himself by now. But since he was still here, she was going to have to properly establish herself. The school was going to have to learn sooner or later that it was best they not to associate with her. Probably the better them and herself since causing trouble was all that she was good for.

"You got that dork?" vexes Nyota, clutching her fist as she waits from the pest to scurry away.
 

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James raised an eyebrow at her claiming the rooftop as her spot, "oh its your spot now huh?" He smiled a bit, "the roof looks big enough for both of us."

A small shadow tentacle sprouted from his shoulder and scratched the back of his head and smiled, "your new aren't you? Well...newer than me anyways. Welcome to Manta Carlos."

James was just a naturally friendly guy, which is ironic considering all the awful things he'd seen.
 

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"THE Fuuu- GROZITS!" exclaimed Nyota as she extended her arm out once more, holding out her palm.

This time when she holds out her hand, a glowing ball of gas started to form just in front of her palm. The sudden sight of a tendril of shadow that seemed to have grown from his should promoted her to react. Inside she knew that she should not have freaked out over the tentacle as much as she already has since she was in a school where such strange powers where more the norm. Yet when she actually saw it... how could she not! Being around all of these strange people with strange powers was still a very new even with the Behavioral Corrections facility taught her to expect manifestation of power.

"Okey what WAS that!? That freaky tentacle thing what was that!? Are you one of those lovecraftian horrors that I heard about? Explain yourself!" demanded Nyota

She refused to converse with... whatever this boy is until she knows what exactly he it. As she waits for the boy's response, the glowing gases coalesced into a fiery orb of radiating light, a star about the size of basketball. She didn't want to get eaten or something.
 

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Well, this just got worse. The tentacles had become second nature, no different than someone using their hands. He watched as she formed what looked like a miniature sun in the palm of her hand, AH WELL, YOU FUCKED UP AS USUAL!, he ignored the Shadow not willing to give the parasite the satisfaction of a reply.

He sighed, he needed to defuse the situation, "no I'm human." He gestured to the tentacle, "it, on the other hand, isn't. I guess you could call it a Lovecraftian horror," he shrugged, "I don't really know what it is, it got latched onto me and thats why I was brought here."
 

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Nyota furrowed a brow. Sure he might have been human but... whatever that thing that he harbored inside of him was potentially dangerous, especially since James did not seem to know what it was. But... perhaps she should not be so critical of him. Afterall, she herself was harboring the soul of a very angry sun god so they were kinda alike in that aspect.

"Hurmp, funny... more or less the same story of how I was brought here."

With that, Nyota relaxed her posture but continued to hold her miniature sun from the palm of her hand, she inspected her luminous orb as a craftsperson have inspected their wares.

"So what it is... some sort of parasite? No... wait... would it be more of a symbiote? Ehh, whatever. Its its some weird shadowing thing living inside you. How did that happen exactly?"

Nyota returned her attention back to James as she waits for him to respond. While she may have planned being by herself but was now found herself a bit more open to conversation once she presumed James as to not being a direct threat to her at the moment.
 

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"It's a long story," a long and unpleasant story. "I ended up finding a metal cube, and the Shadow was in it, so when I touched it, it jumped out and accidentally latched onto me," he decided to leave out the bits about being a thief and all the awful stuff.

"I kind of....wrecked a city block...and flipped a few cop cars." he shifted from one foot to the other, "So, I ended up being sent here not long after,"

He let that sink in for a bit, while he didn't mean any of it to happen it still bothered him, "So...how'd you end up here?"
 
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