The New Arrival

[Magick Stripes]

Not even arriving more than an hour ago, Isis fledging of two weeks had thrown her stuff in her new dorm and was already out exploring what the Rochester House of Night had to offer.

"This place is awesome!" She said happily to herself, kicking a leg back and spinning around like a ballerina. This place was everything Isis was looking for-different and unique. Even as fledging and vampyres the people at the Ohio HoN seemed all the same. Either preppy people with their high voices and bright blond hair or gangster wanna-be's with their pants down to their ankles that tripped at every single step. This place actually had diversity! Maybe she'd even find someone that had her same interest.

"That would be awesome," it shouldn't be that hard to find someone who liked the same things she did. Miss Isis jumped onto one of the broken benches, thankful that her dark brown hair was tied up into a ponytail and not in her face, or else she would have fallen from not being able to see. "Hello Rochester House of Night!" she called with a giggle, getting a few strange looks from some passing fl edgings. "Isis Sol has arrived." she whispered, dropping down onto the bench and sighed contently. Life had been a blast since she'd been marked only fourteen days ago. She'd gotten a cool crescent-which she still hadn't figured if it was blue or purple, so she called it blurple-, met new people, night vision, and got to study a whole different life which she was now part of. "Thank you, Nyx." she smiled up to the sky, reaching into her jeans and pulled out her phone, taking a picture of herself with her tongue out and a text that said 'That'll start your day right, first thing you see when you wake up is me.' then sent it to her best friend back in Oh.

"What should I do now?" Isis pondered, brown eyes watching as two cats ran by, the bigger one apparently chasing the little one. "Poor kitty," the fifteen year old sighed, putting her chin into her hands. "Now I'm bored." what else was there to do around here?

[``the K Y R A]

Blackjack had been lounging on a bench in the courtyard with his cat, Frost, but she then took off after one of the smaller feral cats. He'd noticed the rivalry between them, but didn't interfere, knowing his thank you would probably involve claws and teeth. Not exactly the kind of thing he enjoyed.

As he idly watched his cat chase the other one, he noticed an unfamiliar fledgling sitting in a tree. Fledglings came and went, but not to the same, frenzied degree as in the larger House of Night back in the big city, his hometown. The girl had the same awed expression as the recently Marked, so he guessed she had just arrived. Curious to learn more about his discovery (and to see if she had been talking to any of the girls here that knew him), he lazily strided over to her.

"So, you're new here, right?" he said in an annoyingly cheerful tone, an arrogant and confident expression on his face. "I'm Blackjack, terror of the fifth form. And you are...?"

(( that took me way longer than it should have XD ))

[Magick Stripes]

Isis looked up as someone came up and decided to grace her with their preseness. She looked him up and down then nodded, seeming to understand something only to herself. "You don't look that scary, but then again looks can be deciving. Pleasure to meet you Blackjack, terror of the fifth form. I am the Egyptian Goddess Isis, queen of the third form." she said, spreading her arms out and bowed formally. "But you can just call me Isis or Sissy or Sis will do. And yes I'm new. I just got here about an hour ago. Flew in from Ohio. Clevleand Ohio to be correct." she then folded her legs Idian style, smiling. "This a nice place you got here. Much better than the Clevleand House of Night. Ours was crap compared to this."

She rolled her eyes, watching some more cats go by. "Hold it," she whispered, taking a picture of the one of the cats as it paused at the sudden sound before taking off. "You got a cat?"

[``the K Y R A]

He snickered as she compared the two Houses. "The one in New York isn't bad either, but since there's such a high number of vampyres and fledglings there, it's in pretty bad shape. It was one of the first five Houses on this continent, did you know that?" He was quiet while she asked a question, and as she finished, he shrugged. "Yeah, Frost came with me when I transferred in two months ago. She likes people okay, but has a thing against other cats. Don't ask me why, I have no idea."

"So, you're from Ohio, huh? I had a teacher from Ohio once. A bit odd in the head, but then, everyone who grows up in the slums is."

[Magick Stripes]

"It still couldn't be as bad as the one in Cleveland." Sis shook her head, then held up her phone turning it sideways and took a picture of Blackjack. "I got a thing for taking pictures," she said simple then shrugged. "No I didn't know that. Had to be pretty cool though. The high school I went to was the first west of the Allegheny's." she stated then shook her head again.

"Don't even get me started on odd teachers. I swear my history teacher before I was marked had a crush on me. It was ewwww." she made a fake shudder then smiled. "That's an interesting name you got. Blackjack. Either you got a thing for compound names or you're a card shark." she gave him a calculating look, putting her hand on her chin for a moment. "From the looks of you-and I'm not saying its a bad look-but from the looks of you you look like a card shark, at least to me anyways. But then again what do I know? I'm just a third former transferring from Ohio." she shrugged and her smile grew as she started wiggling in her spot. That was a small habit that her friend said she looked like she was suffering from withdrawal-she wiggled when she was happy, not all out wiggling, just side to side rocking.

[``the K Y R A]

Blackjack grinned, his expression that of someone who enjoyed lording secret knowledge over others. "Well, I am pretty good at playing blackjack, but I have many names." He smirked, resting his weight on one foot to settle into a more comfortable, relaxed stance. "After all, if everybody in town knows me as Blackjack and not my real name, then how is the police gonna identify me if they pick me up?"

The dark-haired teen failed to mention the daggers hidden under his sleeves or the gun (unloaded) well-hidden in his dorm room. He also conviently "forgot" to say anything about his former source of income.


(( lol, I bounce side to side when I'm hyper ))

[Magick Stripes]

"Oh they always find a way, trust me. They track you down with your picture then trace it to your files. Or blood sample. Or saliva sample. Or really just about anything that has your DNA on it." And they said TV rots the mind! Take that world! Law and order helped! She then quirked a brow as if he had something interesting.

"So if they know you as Blackjack, I'm guess that's not your real emancipated name then?" she asked, giving him a new look, her mind starting to calculate so many possibilities at one time. If his real name wasn't Blackjack, what could it be? Why would he need a fake name, even at the HoN? Maybe he was hiding something. 'Maybe he's like those kids off of 21 who robbed the casino! That could be why his name is Blackjack...cool.' she held back a giggle as her mind came up one something that was most likely untrue.

[``the K Y R A]

He smirked, secret-keeping quickly becoming his new favorite hobby. "I don't use my given name, no. But I didn't officially change my name when I was Marked, it'd ruin the effect." Blackjack grinned, thinking back to the high school he'd occasionally attended and the friends he made there: Mo, who went by his middle name and ditched the rest; Kaliea, who kept her father's name despite everything else he'd done; Lacey and Sage, who could've been ordinary people had they not gotten involved with him... ah, the memories. How sweet.

[Magick Stripes]

"That is interesting," Isis nodded, moving out of her Idian sitting postion then just put one leg underneath her. "Has anyone told you you are a very interesting person, Mr. Cardshark? If you don't mind me calling you that." she liked him, he was a person she could study and compare with others. 'Dang it, why did I leave my notepad in my bookbag?' she thought. When she liked something or someone she'd take notes on it/them. 'There is something about him, I just can't place my finger on it.' Note to self: bring notepad EVERYWHERE. She started tapping her fingers on her knees, already seeing how she was going to put this down in her mind.

[``the K Y R A]

Blackjack shrugged in response to her question, an amused expression on his face. "I'm usually called rather nasty things, but yeah, I had a few friends that called me interesting. Emphasis on the 'few'."

He cracked his knuckles, a typical habit of his, and shifted his weight to his other foot. "So, got any more clever questions?"

[Magick Stripes]

Apparently this guy was not widely liked from the way that he talked. 'Danger' something in her mind told her, her eyes widening just minimally. Blackjack had just become something from interesting to something to be studied. 'Note to self number two: Find out all you can about him.' her hand twitched to start writing down as much as she could about him.

"Yeah, I got a question. I heard that if you misbehave enough that the vamps throw you out and let you die. Do you know if that's true?" Sis asked cocking her head to the side. She'd heard that and had been dieing to know if that was true or not. It was a little extream if you asked her, but then fledging kids and human kids had be dealt with accordingly. Maybe the vamps felt that letting someone die in their only bodily fluids was dealing with someone 'accordingly'.

((Congratulations Mr. Blackjack, you just became Isis' new study project.))

[``the K Y R A]

Blackjack grinned in response to her question. "I'm sure that some days Alaine would love to throw me out, but nah. The High Council doesn't allow it. Instead, us 'misbehaving kids' get tossed in isolation if we go too far. I've been thrown in there what, maybe twice now?" He chuckled, looking all the world like he didn't give a crap.

(( not like he would care XD ))