Labyrinth__++][open to anyone who'd like to join.

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[/i]! She took note of the uniform -- red plaid -- and figured that it was one of the students her age. Jumping up, the small girl ran after the elementary student, hoping to ask for help; her ambition was shot down, however, when she tripped over nothing and fell flat on her face, causing her to lose sight of the student.

When she got up, she saw that the student had vanished -- or, more likely [however, not certainly, considering that someone at this school probably had the ability to vanish], turned the corner. Still hopeful, the petite girl turned the corner and ran down the winding path, not realizing that she had just run into a labyrinth of hedges that must have been twice her height.

Only when she fell again and looked up did she take note of her surroundings -- only then did she realize that she was both surrounded and lost in an impossible maze of green. And only then did she remember that she was ineptly claustrophobic. And that was when she felt the greenness close in on her.[/color][/ul][/font][/size]

[Xena]

I walked around, whistling softly with my hands in my lime green pockets. I needed some air after spending a lot of time indoors. Besides, the students would want to see his or her vice president. But even after walking around, striding to places where students can be seen, I didn't see anyone familiar. Not even once. Which was weird, since there are over a thousand students in the academy and the odds of me meeting a familiar student is... well, about fifty to a hundred. Although my chances are quite low, it's still odd.

Hiei, Rosielle, Kurosagi, Komo - the rest of the council are all familiar to me, having met them even before getting the position. Yet I don't even encounter them... At all. But that isn't the reason I'm roaming around. The labyrinth. It shocks me to the tip of my crimson hair that I haven't seen the place ever since I enrolled. I calmly walked inside the said place, taking a slight note on the places I turned. After circling the place, it suddenly hit me. Why the heck am I even here? I won't even get to the other end. I chuckled at the way I drifted off. At that moment, I forgot where I came from. Before heading on, I shrugged at the odds of me finding the end. But someone would come to find me. Or not. Eh, why am I even worrying? It's my own fault and I can't place a responsibility over another's shoulder. Endure the event; I might come to enjoy it.

It was a good thing I noticed the pink-orange hair. I would have passed by it if my eyes didn't roam around. I walked towards her and let out a soft sigh. It didn't take me long to figure out that she was lost as well. I fell in a heap beside her body, my eyes targeted the sky above. My body was curved slightly on the ground, arms and legs on the same side, my eyes finally averting to the ground, where my hands played with the grass.

[xxRyuu²-kun]

<sub>It has been months since Ryuu entered the academy, and it's quite good. Considering the fact that because of his recklessness and a roaming vibes, he was able to discover things, things and places that is not yet discovered by some of the students in the academy.

Labyrinth. The place he spends some of his time while he's not in the mood of lurking in that central town or whenever he's not into playing instruments in the Auditorium. He always go here whenever his bored and wants to be alone.

He remember the first time he set foot in the lover's labyrinth, he finds himself lost inside, and only find his way out when it is already dark, approximately 9:00 in the evening. Though, inspite of that incident he still goes there and challenge himself.

later on, he learned the ways out and memorized it, he was so used in the labyrinth that he often make the past time to walk through it.

This day, while walking through it, he noticed two girls, a crimson haired and an orange haired girl. He approached them, smiled then said.

"Hi, is there any problems?"</sub>

[Elyon Brown]

Walking around,actually,didn't know the place and where she was going,she decided to draw the place which is not familiar.How she was wishing that she will be back home.

Sitting down,looking around and started to sketch.Once again,loneliness was burning all over her.She even drew someone who is very special to her.

[xxRyuu²-kun]

<sub>"Eh?" he said as he looked in the other side after asking both of the girls.

"Elyon?" he asked himself. Then he rushed towards her.

He saw a sketch pad in her hands as he scribble her pencil upon it.

"Yo." he said. "Wha-- I mean, who's that?" he asked.</sub>

[Elyon Brown]

"H-Huh?"
Startled,quickly turned around and saw Ryuu standing on her side."This is...................uh.......nobody.."she lied while,smiling.She just missed her very much.

"Is this the Labyrinth?"she asked hiding her sketchpad on her back.She even hid her pencil on the back.

[xxRyuu²-kun]

<sub>"Come on, Elyon. Don't you even dare to change the topic, ha-ha." he laughed,

"Now tell me, who's in the sketch pad." he smiled teasing and then reached for Elyon's sketchpad on her back.

"Why are you hiding this to me? We're friends right? maybe that's your boyfriend or something, right?" he teased then tickles Elyon.

"If you won't tell me who's that, I'll be tickling you like forever.. " he smiles.</sub>

[Elyon Brown]

"Well,ok,stop that.."
She laughs when he tickled her and was showing the one she drew."It's my best friend.."she declared braveley and confidently.The one she drew in the sketchpad has blonde hair.

It has blue eyes and her face is so beautiful and has smooth-looking hair."I just miss her."she smiled and sounded like crying but,holding it back.Too emotional.

[xxRyuu²-kun]

"Oh, is that so?" he said.

"Well, bestfriends, I have one once, but she died, I have said this once to you, Am I right?" he said.

[Elyon Brown]

"Yeah,you did.."
She said,closing her sketchpad."You also told me the reason why she died.."she added,opening it again,continuing to sketch the place and her best friend.

She was about to ask of the name of his best friend but,didn't bother.She is always full of curiosity.

[xxRyuu²-kun]

"Got to go now, see you some other time," ryuu said while waving goodbye to elyon.

[» broken coda]

[/i]. ...Hopefully.

Just as she was ready to get up and continue looking for her route to classroom 1B, a body plopped down onto the ground beside her. She turned to see who it was -- but then remembered that seeing who it was wouldn't help, since she knew absolutely no one here. Even so, she turned her head, but hardly took in a glance of the girl when a voice spoke from behind her.
[/color][/ul]"Hi, is there any problems?"

[/color]"Ah... no, I'm just... er," the small girl tried to form a response, and after her jumbled fragment of a sentence, only one word finished it off for her. "...Lost."

It was only a split second before the last word that he turned around and walked toward a new figure in the ten foot radius; Mirany had probably said it so low that he hadn't heard anyway. Beyond that, however, towards where he was walking, she saw another girl. Funny how no one was around before she got lost, but now that they all probably lost, it was just a nice, big party... even if she didn't know any of them.
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[xxRyuu²-kun]

<sub>After Ryuu talked with his friedn just a few steps away, he went back in the direction of the other girls and smiles.

"Sorry, I kind-a see me friend. Well, I heard your lost?" he asked to confirm if the one he just heard is right.</sub>

[Xena]

I mumbled while continuing to play with the grass. Then I started to stand up, wiping the small grass that had stuck to the lime green pants I wore. After a short stretching session I looked at the hedges around me, then to the students. A boy and two girls. Probably new students, yet not a a real probability for the latter two as one face is familiar, and since the boy knew the latter girl he could have been a student enrolled without me being informed. Maybe I will just get the student records after I get out of this place.

Then again, 'we' should be the term used. As an officer in the council it is my responsibility to help students as much as I can. I barely heard the conversation of the two related students yet heard the fragments of a sentence the pink-orange haired girl had used. Lost. It was not a real option for me to run away through the hedges, as it may be protected with an alice or a metal barricade was simply camouflaged with the green. I could complain about the labyrinth later on. If we get out of it, that is.

With so much thoughts clouding my head, I forgot about the other students around me. First off are introductions, for the newcomers. Like this girl near me, for example. She was new unlike the other two. I let out a small smile before letting out a hand, yet before I even opened my mouth to speak another raced me to the action. "Sorry, I kind-a see me friend. Well, I heard your lost?" I mumbled a positive answer quietly, even though I wasn't the one asked.

I hoped neither of them heard me, as embarrassment was my failure. Hopping back on the reality train, I realized my hand was still in mid-air, waiting for the pink-orange haired girl's own. And then I began to introduce myself, starting with a slight murmur of a greeting, before the words grew louder to a sentence clearly. "... I'm Xena Zatkin. And you are?"

[Elyon Brown]

As she was continuing doing the sketch,she was actually done in after five minutes so,as she was done doing the shading effects,she yawned and she was bored.

She stretched and suddenly,left her sketchpad and her pencil,she was too excited to leave and rest in her dorm all right.She yawned and almost left.Her sketchpad and her pencil left behind.Once again,she almost left.

[~Just a little girl.]

Ida was lost.

To say she was seemed to be the most insignificant news to learn of. No, she was not lost. She was doomed.

Aah, doom. She had been doomed twice, now wasn't she? In the little event of Ryuu's ghost, and her recent 'drowning'. Damn damn, people would think she was some stupid citizen who needed superman to save her.

Oh, but no, Ida was beyond that, if only she could tell herself the same thing. "If you can't face yourself, you can never face anybody." she remembered Raelag saying.

Her caretaker, if not the Clanlord of Shadowbrand, could be a good philosopher. If only he knew that. If only he wasn't chased day and night by the Demon Sovereign. talk about another Confucius.

So anyway, Ida decided to walk around the tall green walls of grass. It was a labyrinth, of course; there were lots of those in Ygg-Chall, where Raelag had acquired minotaurs for his army. She never came in there though. After all, minotaurs eat meat, and she was, more or less, a skinny piece of meat.

The thought of the said monsters terrified her. What if there were minotaurs? Goodbye future.

She sighed. I'll be alright, she told herself calmly. It's a pretty place. Why not draw?

"I'm not in the mood." she said dully.

Then sing, her mind urged. Sing what you feel.

She did.

The hymn calmed her body, the rhythm told her of a good omen. "You are safe!" her voice sang, sweet and high like a bird's. But people wouldn't understand, seeing that she spoke in fluent Latin.

[» broken coda]

[/color][/ul]"Sorry, I kind-a see me friend. Well, I heard you're lost?"

[/color]"Y-yes," she mumbled, her gaze attached to the ground, and from the corner of her eye, she saw the girl that had been on the grass next to her walk over as well, and beyond that, the girl that had been sitting down and sketching stood up and walked away, forgetting -- or maybe she was leaving it? -- her sketch-pad on the ground. Mirany clutched her own sketch-pad to her chest with both arms and thought about how sad she would be if she lost it, so she called out to the girl, her voice slightly louder than before. "Ah... Excuse me, y-you forgot your sketch-pad...!" she called out in the retreating girl's general direction, hoping she had heard.

But then Mirany heard a voice from beside her, and she turned to the source of the words, which happened to be the other girl with an outstretched hand in Mirany's direction. Embarrassed for not realizing that the girl had held out her hand to her, Mirany quickly grasped it and shook it lightly, a shy smile on her face beneath the redness of the embarrassment.

[/ul]"...I'm Xena Zatkin. And you are?"

[/color]"I'm Mirany... Shirakeru, Mirany," she said, her voice a bit louder than before.

Suddenly, a voice rang out in the awkward silence that had developed between the three people in the maze, and Mirany's ears picked up a high voice speaking in beautiful tones. Tilting her head to one side, she listened to the sound as it drew nearer, the tones of the voice going up and down, swinging in a melodious sound. And realization hit Mirany with a wave of sadness as she realized that the voice was singing.

Singing. It had been long since Mirany had last uttered a note of a song; the last song she had sung was... to her mother. She had stopped singing after her mother passed away...

But Mirany shook her head to clear the thoughts, sort of telling herself not to let her sadness get to her. Instead, she listened to the beautiful voice as it drew nearer, singing phrases in a language Mirany recognized as Latin. She had studied the Latin language in her free time back at home, but had never had the instruction to become fluent in it, and she only knew the language by nominal standards. Still, she knew enough to recognize the meaning of the phrase that the high voice repeated as something along the lines of, 'you are safe.' And at that moment, with the beautiful voice ringing through the air, Mirany did feel safe in the strange new environment of the school she had dreaded coming to.[/ul][/font][/size]

[Elyon Brown]

Sketchpad? Elyon looked around her and even under her.Her sketchpad wasn't there.She heard that word from another girl,thinking that she found it,she ran to her.

"H-Hey,thank you....uh..."she stamered,clutching her sketchpad."Hi,I'm Elyon."she bursted out,holding out her hand.

[~Just a little girl.]

She ended her song in a high tone, her sweet voice ringing in the air. If one would listen from a faraway place, she would be thought of as some nightingale, perhaps, or even see her as one, with her arms spread wide and golden curls flying behind her, her floral dress billowing in the wind almost showing a the skin above her knees...yes, maybe she might have looked like some bird of paradise at the moment.

But when she was done, she collapsed on her butt, tired and heaving. Singing wasn't really her forte'- it always took a great amount of energy to sing like that, especially with high tone. Nevertheless, she was good at it, if she was only confident enough to say so herself.

She did herself a favor and decided to rest a little. If she had much of her strength back, she would continue her journey through the twists and turns of the green maze.

And she had no plan to risk any meeting with minotaurs powerless.

But her fear and anxiety got the best of her, since, to her horror, it was getting dark. If she didn't leave now she would have to sleep through the night, amidst the vines and shadows in the green maze. No, she thought of leaving right now and take her chances with minotaurs.

Or whatever else was out there.

But all attempts were fruitless. The sun had already gone when she heard movement among the grass, and voices over the hedges. Clutching at her breast, she moved silently, keenly listening to the sounds. If they were human, they couldn't be hostile. Were there sphinxes in a Labyrinth? She didn't think so.

But the voices were familiar, and she couldn't help the surge of hope flooding in her veins; her feet moved swiftly without a sound, yet she almost lost footing and nearly fell. She wasn't so graceful, after all.

[» broken coda]

[/i] she thought, quickly looking around to find a way out. She had to get out of there and to the safety of her dorm -- not that she had been given a dorm yet; she would probably get in trouble for cutting class on her first day. Either way, she had to get out of the darkness that was quickly descending upon them, for not only was she extremely claustrophobic, but she was extremely scared of darkness, as well. And, at the moment, darkness was quickly rising as day gave way to night. Mirany shuddered involuntarily, and bit her lip as her facial expression gave way to fear, her hazel eyes glued to the now-dark green of the grass beneath her.

From behind her, a voice jolted her out of her thoughts, and she jumped involuntarily for what must have been the third time in five minutes; then she realized that it was just the girl that had been sitting there with her sketchpad before -- the girl Mirany had called back. It was hard to see in the darkness, but she could hear the girl's voice clearly enough.
[/color][/ul]"H-hey, thank you... uh... Hi, I'm Elyon."

[/color]"Y-you're welcome; I'm Mirany," she said, holding out her hand to shake that of the girl's, a small smile on her lips. One hand still grasped her sketchpad to her side, and after shaking and withdrawing her hand, Mirany brought both hands down and let them grasp each other, the sketchpad still safely between them.

But Mirany's smile faltered when she heard noises from behind her; she glanced to her sides, but the other two next to her had remained silent. Slowly, she turned her head, her eye brows furrowed from fear and worry -- something or someone was behind her. And aforementioned something/someone had just made a noise sounding like he/she/it had almost fallen. Had it not been nighttime under the circumstances she was under at the moment, Mirany would have gone to help whoever it was; but it was nighttime, and all of Mirany's courage had left with the day. So all she could do was take a small step backwards and stare towards the spot that the noise had come from.[/ul]
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