Sunshine and Shadows

"Whoa! That... kinda awesome! You look so... scrawny that I didn't strike me as the kind of person who was capable of bringing down a building." Remarks Nyota, who seemed to have approved of James surprisingly destructive abilities.

"Hrmm? How did I get up here? Err... I used the door... like a normal person."

Nyota then looked over to the nearby roof access, looking somewhat puzzeled. Nyota pondered as to why James wanted to know that when she realized that wasn't the question he meant. She snapped her head back to face James with a malicious looking grin on her face.

"Oh! You wanted to how I ended up HERE. At the academy. Hee... well~ I ate a god."

Nyota allowed a moment for James to absorb that information, the air between the two grew somewhat stagnate before the gentle breeze returned.

"Of course... I had no idea that I ate the body of a perished sun god at the time. When my crazy grandmother showed me the little black pearl that apparently brought good fortune... I was so out of it from the drugs the doctors had prescribed for me that I thought she was trying to give me some Chinese medicine again or something. So I popped the lil black orb into my mouth and swallowed it whole. After a few days of feeling better, the powers and memories of the ancient sun god manifested. I... kinda went a bit wacko and attempted to incinerate the entire world. Didn't get very far though..."

Nyota then shrugged, she barely remembered the entire ordeal. Thoughts of revenge against humanity were so overwhelming that it was all just a hazy flash of light, fire, and smoke. Honestly her little rampage was more of public nuisance in her opinion. Especially compared to James who was standing right in front of her.

"A lot of people were hurt and I think I may have burned down a building but as far as I know, no one died from that little incident. Anyway, when I came to... I woke up on Juvie Island. Spend the next two years in rehab and now they finally saw me first to go back to school. And now... I am talking to you."

Nyota frowned a bit, it just occurred to her that she had an entire conversation with a fellow student that didn't end in either them cowering away or ending in a brawl. Guess those anger managements sessions really did do something.

Nyota was a bit too distracted in thought that she did really listen the first thing James mentioned. Something about powers was all she caught. The rest of the what he said she did manage to listen to, finding the thought of Jame and his parasite friend berating him somewhat amusing.

"Hee... thats funny. Yeah I have all sorts of memories... several lifetime worth of memories. Most of them... kinda peaceful even if most of them are spend walking on the sun..."

Nyota looked back up the sun in the sky with a look of longing. She then looks back down to Aedan, trying to shove all of those memories in the far back recesses of her mind.

"Hmm... almost distracted myself there... right... um... what where we talking about again?"

Nyota frowned somewhat, pushing away her own miniature sun away. The little star shrinks somewhat, then seems to unravel and dissipated as Nyota was too concerned over not recalling what she was just talking about. Ever since she acquired her powers... she had found it difficult to remember what she was doing at times. Nyota closes her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose with her right hand, really bothered by what it was she was even talking about.

"Ughh... I am so forgetful these days."

"Huh? Oh... yeah... that sounds about right" agreed Nyota who just went along with what James had said.

Nyota takes a moment to reflect on James comment on how he gets distracted occasionally and how he can apparently teleport. She wondered if that was how got up on the roof earlier. Oh! While she thought about she went to grab her smartphone, brandishing a blue plastic cover witht he unmistakable Starfleet Insignia from the Star Trek series, in one of her pockets to confirm the current time. Once she saw the time she slopped the phone right back to the pocket she had pulled it from earlier.

"OH, its only been twenty minutes since I have been up here. Anyway, you said that you can teleport? Thats neat. I guess that is how you got yourself on the roof. You already saw my power which was to make tiny artificial stars but I kinda just use it more as a glorified headlamp if anything." stated Nyota as she shrugged indifferently.

"Pfffttt! You dork... thats one of the DUMBEST things I heard! I mean yeah I could power all of the continental United States for about about half an hour with one of this puppies but we can't exactly plug an extension cord a tiny star to do that now can we?" berated Nyota who seemed to be more amused than she is annoyed.

"I mean... sure I could just boil a vat of water to power a steam engine but... I find that proposition rather dull... anyway, you said something about a symbol?"

Nyota was forced to think for a moment as to what James meant before deducing that he meant the one on her phone.

"Symbol? You mean... the one on my phone? Oh you wouldn't know it, most people don't it seems. Its from an old television series called Star Trek."

@Aedan Drago

"Damn right I right... its nice to know that there people here who can agree with me here." remarked Nyota in a somewhat gloating manner.

Nyota gave James a bit of a quizzical look, it was difficult for her to take him seriously about him wanting to try a television program like kid deprived of candy all their life or something. It was an odd request but figured she would indulge him.

"Have you... never watched anything on the TV before dork? Sounds like you have deprived childhood there. Anyway... its science fiction so plenty of star ships, aliens, and futuristic technologies."

Nyota realized that she had a opportunity to finally have someone to watch Star Trek with who were not her parents. She loved both of her mom's but sometimes its hard to enjoy the show when the two of them constant banter about the finer details that only die-hard fans would bother to bring up. Being the expert on subject would be a nice change for once.

"So... you know... if your interested let me know. I have every episode of every season on DVD. Heck, when classes are over I can invite you into my dorm to watch a few episodes on the little TV I have in my room to see how you like it."

Nyota then rubs the back of her head, she appeared a bit bashful as she realized this was the first time she had ever invited someone to her living space. She could almost hear the voices of her moms cheering for her. Wait asn't she mad at him before for something? She can't seem to remember what it was now...